Byron and the Half-Elf controlling the Worm Queen had, with the Wizards' help, crossed the first wave of Black Tide's ebb at the point where its advance had faltered. They continued onward toward the Eye of the Abyss.
"How much longer until we reach the inner ring?" Byron asked.
The inner ring was the closest distance Tier 3 Wizards could get to the Eye of the Abyss.
"I'm afraid we'll still have to travel for two more days," Krut, one of the Tier 3 Wizards accompanying them, replied.
Byron furrowed his brow anxiously. "The Black Tide is spreading far too quickly this time. We should have reached the inner ring before it invaded the two continents. At this rate, I'm afraid quite a few Anchor Point Monsters will escape."
At the mention of Anchor Point Monsters, even the battle-hardened Krut couldn't help swallowing nervously.
Only Tier 4 Wizards dared approach Anchor Point remains. Yet now they were going to hunt down Anchor Point Monsters. How could he not be nervous?
Even so, he had to go. Krut had already been abandoned once by the previous Star Gate Speaker, and he didn't want Gorsa to abandon him too.
Before they set out, Gorsa had told everyone that this mission might well end with their entire force wiped out. But he had kept a Soul Fragment from each of them. As long as the world wasn't destroyed and either he or Thor was still alive, they would do everything in their power to resurrect every Wizard who died in the Black Tide War.
But anyone who failed to carry out their mission properly would be banished from the Star Gate Council forever.
Gorsa hadn't said what banishment entailed, but everyone knew what he was like. He would never let a traitor get