While the surface world panicked, Ren didn't march directly to the gates. He descended into the Undercity, the sprawling slums where the poor and the criminals lived in the shadows of the Cathedral's towers.
Here, Ren found the Shadow Market, a den of thieves and outcasts who hated the Church as much as he did.
"Who are you to walk into my domain?" a scarred man named Kael, the King of Thieves, asked, pointing a dagger at Ren.
Ren didn't use his power to kill. He used it to show them the truth. He projected the memories of the Nine Circles—the suffering, the power, and the inevitability of the Void.
"The Church calls you filth," Ren's voice echoed in the dark tunnels. "I call you my vanguard. Join me, and you shall feast on the gold of the High Priests."
[Ding! You have recruited the 'Undercity Rebels'.] [Army Size Increased: +5,000 Shadow Thieves.]
The revolution was no longer just Ren's. It was the uprising of the forgotten.