"This could be the very beginning of the end."
The voice wasn't loud, yet it echoed clearly in the minds of everyone seated at the table.
The heads of all the Towers glanced at each other listening to those words.
"We all know Darkness never truly vanished from this world. It was sealed deep within the planet's core, locked away where it couldn't regain its strength or rise against us again. And now… it seems the Acolytes have found a way to awaken a fragment of the greatest evil humanity has ever faced."
Ruby frowned, though for reasons different from the others.
The question forming in her mind was asked soon enough.
"How can you be so sure?" Someone said, "All the great heroes of the past united to seal that being ages ago. How could mere Acolytes of this era awaken something like that?"
Darkness meant ruin, and the Acolytes had always sought destruction, forcing submission to their lord, their benefactor, Nytharos.
