On the Phantom Color Channel, Thor heard Shaya's report and couldn't help tensing up.
"Can you hold out over there?"
[We just repelled the first wave of Anchor Point Monsters. It's actually much easier than it is outside. The Bone Army has already taken shape. They're not as nimble as the Anchors, but there are plenty of them, so they can hold back the monsters charging out of the Rift.]
Thor felt a little more at ease.
He had thought the Chaos Domain had been sealed off to stop him and Camus from getting in touch again, but he hadn't expected the Anchors to break through the barrier around the Chaos Domain and attack it.
"How many enemies are there?"
[There were eleven Anchors in the first group to emerge from beneath the Great Rift. They've retreated below it for now. If their numbers don't suddenly increase, we should be able to protect ourselves. But we can't go down into the Great Rift right now, so we don't know how the Anchor Point Monsters got here or whether any more will come.]
Thor thought of something. "That means you've had to suspend your work mining the bone remains, too?"
[Ah! Yes, but the Bone Army has already reached nearly the limit of what Keli and the others can control, so it hasn't made much difference.]
That was the advantage of Keli and the others having hurried to build the Bone Army. Although the mining operation had now been disrupted, the army had already reached a considerable size.
But if the Chaos Domain still couldn't be opened by the time the Black Tide erupted into its final battle, the monster army Thor had painstakingly created wouldn't be able to fight in the Wizard World.
At the same time, Thor realized that