Changing Places!

An astral rift was just a term in the field of psionic knowledge to people elsewhere on the continent, symbolizing and describing a disaster related to psionic energy running amok in the Astral Plane.

But to the people of Transia, an astral rift was more like a newly emerged "accompanying phenomenon."

The destruction of Cadman City had come from the great astral rift orchestrated by Dusk in the Dark and the Tower of Rings in the Light. The astral wound that operation had left in the sky, in an effort to break the Transians' will to resist, had become part of their lives.

Especially for the residents of Crimson Castle.

They didn't even need to carry a gas lamp when they got up to use the bathroom at night. The purple glow from the rift in the sky was more than enough to meet their "lighting needs."

Later, when responding to the gnoll warlord's provocations in the Andmar Hills, the Transians had used the destructive power of an astral rift for the first time, carrying out an almost flawless ambush.

Thus, they had completed their wicked transformation from "victims" to "perpetrators."

The astral rift ritual had now passed its "acceptance test," becoming the "finale" in the Transians' arsenal.

Before the Battle of Blackflame Pass had even begun, Murphy had seriously discussed with Triss and Femis the possibility of using an astral rift to block the Black Calamity. But the planar boundary of the Dark Mountains was too stable, so they had to abandon the idea.

Opening a highly destructive astral rift anywhere outside Transia was extremely difficult. It required not only a vast amount of psionic energy, but also precious energy conduits and a large group of psionicists who had studied the formulas for astral projections.

But fate's invisible hand