A few months passed, a brief, deceptive lull in the continental storm.
Within the icy sanctuary of the Mystic Ice Sect, Alaric's influence was absolute. The Sect, now a formidable fighting force armed with his artifacts and trained in Royal-level techniques, served as his unbreachable northern fortress.
In the kingdom of Jorailia, Alaric stepped out of the shadows for a single night to personally bring the civil war to a decisive close and harvest the second system-holder on the Western Continent.
When Lady Ondine Bellerose's legions—equipped with Iridelle's newly forged radiant artillery and spearheaded by Archmage Priscilla and Brita Kuusk's shadow-blades—stormed the royal palace of Lysandra, King Rouben Yachvili died amidst the burning pillars of his throne room, while his surviving general, Tauron, fled east toward the coast with the bruised envoys of the Celestial Dragon Empire.
