(The Righteous Faction's POV)
News spread quickly amongst the Righteous Faction that a massive Cult army had been spotted leaving the Dimensional Portal of the Stilled World, as spy crafts positioned near the portal reported unusual activity.
At first, the reports were not met with disbelief, nor with panic, but with a restrained acknowledgment, as contingency protocols that had existed only as simulations were quietly elevated to active status, and sealed channels lit up across administrative and military networks that had long prepared for this exact possibility.
They had always known this could happen.
