When they looked through the newly opened path in the separated cluster, they could see a line that extended to the horizon. It wasn't just a temporal horde, it was a complete army of corrupt beasts.
"By all the dragons," murmured one of Selphira's guards, his voice filled with horror.
The creatures were coming exactly from the direction of the Gold 3 ring, from the place where Sirius was supposed to find the solution to their problems.
Things had just become a lot more complicated.
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Ren looked at the letter in his hand once more, its surface crumpled from his unconscious grip. Whatever its contents were, whatever secrets it held about Luna's pain and his father's decisions, would have to wait. He crushed it in his fist with deliberate force, feeling the paper compress, before storing it in his pocket where it rested like a weight against his chest.
Survival had become the immediate priority.
