Reidar abruptly shifted his focus from the combat to the horde of vicious insects he had sent into the Chittering Tunnels.
Through the senses of the Vorathid Foragers, he saw a cavern deep beneath the ground, illuminated by torches that flickered where they were set in the stone. Inside, black-robed figures belonging to the Church of Unbinding stood in a circle.
They were in the middle of some kind of circle, and to that circle, mana was rushing.
An invisible vortex pulled the energy along the lines of the magic circle, which caused the air itself to thin. The valley's energy was siphoned away into a single, hungry point. Reidar watched this unfold through the Foragers' eyes, though the purpose of the ritual remained a complete mystery.
