71 The Holy Light's Crusade Never Ended; the Former Calm Was Only a Temporary Truce

Diakum had little desire to involve himself in Azshara's affairs.

On one hand, although the queen had indeed tempered some of her nature through ten thousand years of remorse, people rarely changed their true colors. If meddling too much in her private matters provoked Azshara's displeasure, Diakum suspected he would receive the same treatment Mannoroth the Destroyer had gotten during the War of the Ancients.

Though Queen Azshara would most likely lose to him now, there was no need to turn a potential ally into an enemy.

On the other hand, the operations in Revendreth were unlike Diakum's previous actions in Bastion and Ardenweald. Those two places had truly just been stops along "side quests"; he could handle them casually.

But this journey to Revendreth was Diakum's "main quest." He had to devote one hundred percent of his enthusiasm and drive to completing it.

Compared to that, even Sire Denathrius's fate no longer seemed all that important.

Thus, for the next several days, Diakum rested and recuperated within the Brokers' Floating City. He only emerged once the Veiled Market drew near Revendreth.

The So Cartel's Floating City was exceptionally lively now.

At the invitation of Boss So'leah, nearly every Broker scholar among the active Broker Cartels throughout the Shadowlands who was interested in the knowledge and mysteries of the First Ones had been invited to the Veiled Market.

With the Nether-Stalker at its core, they had formed an organization called the "Cipher Society," dedicated to studying the knowledge of the First Ones.

During their earlier journey through Korthia, the Nether-Stalker and Rafaam had gathered some First Ones ciphers in that mysterious shattered kingdom. Yet such knowledge was extraordinarily obscure and difficult to comprehend, requiring the Broker scholars to devote all their efforts to deciphering it.

However, after Azshara joined them