The surviving soldiers of the Blackwatch Legion returned to Montreal Mountain and, like their Legion Commander and Chief Mage, were imprisoned in the Judgment Hall's dungeon.
The McKennen High Priest demanded to know why humans had appeared in the Far North, but Lady Lilith stopped him. That move seemed to have worked. The Stuen Ratfolk, however, were stirring: a Rat Swarm had suddenly headed north.
The Anti-Magic Field was still spreading. The Demons Lady Lilith had sent north to investigate had reached the edge of a "void" utterly devoid of supernatural power. Even Demons would lose their supernatural abilities there.
At the Demon Camp, the Six-Armed Snake Demon Commander reviewed the compiled intelligence inside a Stone House.
First: keep watching, and above all, do nothing rash. If they did nothing now, Blackwatch would only look more suspicious.
Second: the Six-Armed Snake Demon suspected the Stuen Ratfolk resented the McKennan Ratfolk for stealing the credit for their victory and wanted to seize the Red-Eye Clan's position. As the Commander Lady Lilith had ordered to hold the rear, Biross had turned them away on the grounds that "outsiders were forbidden from entering the Demon Volcano." Still, this seemed like a good chance to sow discord between the two Ratfolk Clans.
They could not have the land at the foot of the Snow Mountains. But what if she set aside a patch of land for them farther out?
Third... A trace of gravity crossed the Six-Armed Snake Demon's beautiful, finely scaled face. She suspected the "void," far vaster than the Anti-Magic Field, was connected to the loss of contact with the Gods. Though humans had mistaken the Demons' presence here as being related to the Anti-Magic Field, their presence had also shielded humanity from the anomaly.
But Biross was not worried. At its