The next few days, reports continued to arrive.
The Keepers moved faster than Lucien expected.
By then, he had confirmed one more unpleasant truth. The Keepers were at least Eternal-levels.
And across the five continents, the number of confirmed and suspected Keepers had already climbed into the thousands.
That number did not frighten Lucien.
It made him quiet.
There was a difference.
If thousands of Eternals had been hidden inside the world for so long, then the Thousand Races had never truly understood what lived among them.
..
The first open move happened in the Middle Continent.
Three factions that had refused to surrender their Origin Core fragments were attacked in the same afternoon.
They were not allies of Lootwell. They were not innocent either.
The Blood Iron Sect had used war captives as mining labor for years.
The Red Smoke Pavilion had sold poison under medicine labels.
The Mountain Fang Clan had a long habit of calling robbery "ancestral taxation."
