In the end, very few of the Dread Warriors had managed to escape the inferno. Most of them perished in the fire, while the rest were either slaughtered by Kai, Morgan, and Seishan or died while trying to storm the Stone Castle.
The castle itself, as well as the survivors of the city sheltered behind its walls, remained safe.
The Dread Generals were all gone, slain in the devastating chaos.
The city was no more.
From the outer wall to the moat of the inner keep, it was now an ashen wasteland. Piles of blackened rubble protruded from the ash like twisted gravestones, and clouds of smoke obscured the sky, making the day as dark as the night.
Years of calamitous siege had not managed to destroy the peaceful city of the Mason King, but the actions of Effie and her companions did.
