One evening, he was sitting in his throne room, which was really just the old judge's chambers with a bigger chair, when Vexia entered with a stack of scrolls.
"A report from our scouts, Your Majesty," she said, the 'Your Majesty' still sounding weird and sarcastic, even from her.
"Let me guess," Nox said, not even looking up from the piece of jerky he was chewing. "The sewer's backed up again."
"No," Vexia said, her voice grim. "It is something far more… interesting." She laid a scroll on the table in front of him. It was a map of the world, much larger and more detailed than the regional one they had seen before.
"The Scripture has been… active," she explained. "New dungeons have been appearing all over the world. Not just the simple, goblin-infested caves we saw in the tutorial phase. These are different. Larger. More complex."
