Before facing that final Judgment Day, they first had to survive long enough to see it arrive. If the Kintharians and the Throsgenians—sitting at the very top percentile of Players in this Ordeal—were being pushed to their absolute limits, then for everyone else it could only be hell on earth.
Jake had ordered the remaining Myrtharian Nerds to focus on defending Dusken.
Grouping up was a lifesaver thanks to United We Stand, but the capital of the Duskwight Lands was also one of Anthace's and the Blade Spirit's two primary targets. Gerulf and his kin were doing a damn good job intercepting threats, but they could only cover so much ground.
Creatures saturated with dark, corrosive Lumyst were erupting everywhere. For every thousand the handful of Kintharians blocked or wiped out, tens of millions were breaking through somewhere else on the continent at that very same moment.
