"A reported six Martial Masters from the Kandrian Empire are dead, in addition to… Sir Armstrong, who broke through to the Sage Realm shortly before his death, Your Majesty."
In the Royal Office of the Kandrian Empire, the Director of Intelligence had found himself standing before the Emperor of Harmony.
His tone was strained.
He considered himself to be quite clinical when it came to intelligence, and yet not even he could comport himself when he conveyed the news of the tragic death of the Gatekeeper after breaking through to the Sage Realm, no less.
The Royal Office was silent.
The darkness of night drenched the world in its omnious veil while a sea of lights could be seen across the town of Vargard from all the people who were awake in the middle of the night.
The disruption of day-night cycles less than half a day ago disrupted everybody's sleep, leaving them as wide awake as owls in the middle of the night and as sleepy as bats during the day.
