"So you want us to take our fight to the... dwarf kingdom?" Mark said, raising an eyebrow.
"Exactly," Focalors replied, settling down onto one of the spider eggs. "The stage is set and ready for the show. All that's missing is you."
Alice and Aria exchanged a confused glance, since none of it made any sense to either of them.
"Wait a second," Aria cut in, stepping forward with a frown. "The dwarf kingdom? That's impossible."
"Aria's right," Alice added. "As far as I know, the last recorded contact with them was about two hundred years ago, maybe more... After that, nothing."
Her expression grew more serious.
"No one ever heard from them again, so logically everyone assumed they'd gone extinct."
Mark turned to Focalors, waiting for an explanation.
"Ah, right... about that," the demon replied with a careless wave of the hand. "We also thought we'd killed them all."
"But...?"
