Three days later, a much calmer Tangere entered the castle's conference room.
"The number of demonic monsters in the Forest of Nature has exploded. They're starting to form an encirclement. The enemy is here," Tangere said, bursting into the room to find Orion.
Although Tangere himself had withdrawn to the safety of The Stillness, he had left a vast network of Plague-thralls on the front lines to serve as his eyes and ears. Over the past two days, those thralls had been systematically overwhelmed by massive hordes of demonic monsters, their numbers dwindling rapidly. With the instincts of a born opportunist, Tangere knew exactly what this was: the opening act of a full-scale invasion.
"We haven't seen any Legendary-level threats yet," he added, "but they're definitely planning something big."
