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.

long do you think?" he asked Granin and the old Shaper scrunched up his face. "Your

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

He shrugged.

is my guess. If we don't have

when the Ancients took matters

Anthony makes it in time," Torrina said, and Granin

said, and she thought for a moment before she shook her

eating range of an all-powerful monster. Granin imagined it may be

be awed, he thought, not for

ravenous of the Ancients. There would be little point keeping Granin alive, so

might still be worth

"Our only chance of staving off disaster is to present a new Ancient. That was the task laid on the founders of the cults, and we are running out of time to

seven," Corun fretted, and

at that. Considering where he'd started, it was a remarkable journey. In fact, recalling he hadn't even been born amongst

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

in the fortress nest below Roklu, the three had a huge

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

point where the golgari felt their lungs burn when they breathed. Not from the

filters in order to