The following days became a relentless cycle of tension and destruction across all five kingdoms.
The attacks never truly stopped.
One day it was hordes of corrupted Magical beasts charging out from forests and mountains like rabid creatures driven by madness. The next day strange anomalies appeared without warning. Entire sections of land suddenly warped unnaturally while rivers changed direction overnight or storms filled with distorted Magic swallowed villages beneath skies that cracked like broken glass.
Sometimes the corruption rose directly from beneath the earth itself.
No kingdom escaped it anymore.
Leonora suffered repeated attacks against its outer territories while neighboring kingdoms reported entire convoys disappearing into spatial distortions that should not have existed naturally.
Cities reinforced their walls. Armies remained mobilized constantly. Even civilians slowly realized that the world itself had started changing into something unstable and dangerous.
