Chrysalis

Granin stirred as the wave washed over him.

"W-was that?" Corun asked breathlessly.

"It was," the triad leader stated.

Torrina sucked in a breath, letting the shock register on her face instead of her usual stoic expression.

"This is a lot sooner than we expected," she said after calming herself. "Are you sure?"

Her teacher shot her a slightly annoyed look and she looked down. Granin snorted.

"You're too smart to ask a question like that," he scolded her, "we just got punched in the face by a wall of mana. Of course I'm sure."

"I know. I suppose I just didn't want it to happen now. I don't think I'm ready."

"Nobody is ready for what's coming. They might have spent three thousand years preparing themselves, but they still aren't ready."

At least we won't be the ones to pit ourselves against the overwhelming strength of the Ancients. I'm happy to leave that to those with far more hubris than I.

Corun warred with the sense of excitement and trepidation. World shaking events would take place, and soon. A wave the likes of which the world hadn't seen since the Time of Rending was building. It was possible the events of the past would repeat themselves, with the Ancients causing devastation on a global scale. Naturally, he was nervous.

and the

there are others still sleeping. That being the case, the mana level isn't high enough, but it's getting close. If I were to guess, I'd say that those who aren't awake are stirring at the least, and those who are already risen are

He shrugged.

a year is my guess. If we don't have a solution by

when the Ancients took matters into their own hands. Cataclysm, catastrophe,

it in time,"

to meet the Worm in person?" he said, and she thought for a moment before

it meant coming well within eating range of an all-powerful monster. Granin imagined it may be a very moving experience, to see Yarrum with his own eyes. A creature of legend

awed, he thought, not for

Worm was perhaps the second most ravenous of the Ancients. There would be little point keeping Granin

still be

Ancient. That was the task laid

still only tier seven," Corun

he'd started, it was a remarkable journey. In fact, recalling he hadn't even been born amongst his Colony, but in

ever seen before, and the next will be even worse. If you want to train

their vantage point high in the fortress nest below Roklu, the three had a huge range of view

it only grew worse, and worse, and worse. Larger demons began to climb up

constant swirl of ash and smoke, thickened, to the point where the golgari felt their lungs burn when they breathed. Not from the smoke, but from

filters in order to