Atticus would have thanked his stars if he knew how close the Will Guard had been to boxing them in.
It was only after Whisker explained how they operated that he saw how tight their escape was.
It went without saying that the Will Guard held the most authority in the Willess World. They alone controlled the majority of the resources, and that made them able to wield power no other faction could otherwise wield.
Atticus found out from Whisker that, just as it was possible for them not to use their will without a medium, the Will Guard had invented a technology that enabled them to either limit the use of will to a particular area, cutting them out of the world, or cut off the use of will completely.
Either way, it was an incredible power to have. And when Whisker told him that the other major factions were scrambling to figure out the makings of this technology, Atticus expressed his shock.
