Ben's mind raced as he fit the pieces together.
Before, the system's information had been too fragmented to mean anything.
Now the dots started to connect.
The opposing faction, the ones trying to stop the Daemons, had probably created the system.
They must have summoned a Traveler like him and given them a system and an artifact to guide them against the Daemon threat.
If there were groups actively hunting Travelers, then it also made sense that they were working with, or for, the Daemons.
"This group," Ben said, his tone more serious, "can you tell me more about them?"
She nodded slowly. "I don't know what their original name was, before the split.
It has been too long.
But after the fall, they each took a new name.
The ones who sided with the Daemons called themselves the Templars.
The others, the ones who stood against them, became the Crusaders."
"Crusaders and Templars…" Ben repeated quietly, fixing the names in his memory.
