“Rifts have appeared in Belleve!”
“A new rift has opened in Shiaho!”
“The city garrison failed to contain it and is retreating!”
“The area near Baron Vervant’s estate has been decimated…”

Messengers from all over the kingdom flooded the capital with dire reports. The rifts, long feared, were now opening across the land.

There was no guarantee that the rifts currently active were the only ones. Whenever the kingdom focused on one, another would emerge elsewhere, making a coordinated response near impossible.

The royal court and the high-ranking nobles of the Crown Prince’s faction were in a …