Through the viewing crystals, magical devices that let commanders observe distant operations, Nyx and Razeil watched the raids unfold.
Team Alpha breached the northern district simultaneously with Teams Beta and Gamma. But the results were disappointing.
"Northern location is empty." Commander Terin's voice came through the communication crystal. "They evacuated, probably within the last few hours."
"Same in the eastern warehouse." Lieutenant Mora reported.
One by one, similar reports came from all the locations.
"They knew we were coming." Arthur said. "Either they have better intelligence than we thought or…"
"Or the interrogations yesterday were a setup." Raziel finished. "They sent us three people with information to make them trustworthy, but they were already evacuating those locations.
If Mat, Vera, and Skylar had been plants, everything they'd revealed about funding, leadership, plans could be misinformation to mislead us."
