In the end, Cyrabelle never revealed why she was determined to remain in the Void World.
Green did not press her. He had no right to force her, either. Besides, they had escaped the mire of Stinnard. There was no harm in watching how things unfolded from the Northern Province. At worst, once the dust settled in Stinnard, they could leave through the Space-Time Gate.
With that in mind, Green was in no particular hurry to leave. After all, the body he had here was not his true one.
He had his own ideas, too. Once the Void World entered the Terminal Stage, an apocalyptic calamity was bound to erupt. Vast numbers would die, and the entire world would fall silent. The deaths of hundreds of millions of humans and other living creatures would produce an unimaginable amount of Death Psychic Energy. For a Necromancer, it would be a feast!
Meanwhile, after Louis Bonaparte finished sharing his intelligence, he personally led the twenty thousand Revolutionary Army soldiers he had brought out of Stinnard, along with another fifteen thousand troops loyal to him, northward.
During that time, the Southeastern Province, the Revolutionary Army's stronghold, had mustered another hundred thousand troops to reinforce Stinnard.
King Louis, who occupied the area around the former Red Fortress, stood directly between the Southeastern Province and Stinnard.
Although Louis Bonaparte was King in name, his unauthorized departure from Stinnard and his declaration that he would establish a new capital had angered many senior figures in the Revolutionary Army and the great lineages of the Rune Federation. They considered the Bonaparte lineage a source of trouble.
So the hundred thousand troops dispatched from the Southeastern Province were not only aimed at the Holy Light Church, which refused to leave the Royal Palace. They were also meant to