Seven days passed, and they felt endless. The conversation Reidar had with Sub-Adjutant Xy'tharr Kench a week ago about his family had solved nothing. Instead, it made everything worse. The Kytinn warrior hadn't been lying about the scale of the problem. He hadn't used flowery language or tried to soften it; he just listed the facts, and those facts were terrible.
The situation in the Northwest was falling apart. While Reidar had been focused on reaching his parents, the Church of Unbinding had been busy everywhere else.
The Church of Unbinding was everywhere, with more hidden cells than anyone had guessed, and they were opening portals non-stop to power-level their own members.
