As the meeting concluded and the detailed roles were assigned, the atmosphere of the room shifted from planning to execution. The three girls departed for their respective faction headquarters, their minds racing. They had a mountain of tasks ahead of them.
Even as they prepared to launch this new offensive, they had to maintain their current deployments across the four kingdoms; frontlines. One wrong move, one lapse in judgment, and the entire front would collapse.
The urgency reached a fever pitch when the first reports arrived from the vanguard teams sent out earlier that day. The news was both a triumph and a warning.
"They've reached their locations," a scout reported, breathless. "The portals are being established as we speak, but there's a complication."
According to the dispatches from the Scorching Lands, the monster tide in the outlying regions was far more massive than their initial intelligence suggested.
