Leaving the immense wall of fire and the devil's roars behind him, Renato paid no attention to the battle between the pit fiend and the Drow Matron Mother. Instead, he sprinted toward the White Tower Klauthsura had pointed out.
He had no idea how Morlock, the Baron of the Nine Hells, would feel about being summoned this way, but the Priestess of Lolth pursuing him had vanished without a trace.
Whether the devil had crushed her or forced her to retreat, that was enough for Renato.
As the two of them advanced toward the city center, the surrounding fog gradually thickened.
The outlines of collapsed buildings on either side of the street loomed through the fog like hazy phantoms. Strangely, however, as they hurried onward, the bone soldiers and zombies grew sparser rather than more numerous as expected.
Aside from scattered undead remains on the ground, the streets held little but eerily empty ruins. Even the sounds of fighting that had once filled the streets and alleys gradually faded into the distance.
Perhaps most of the undead have been drawn to the fighting on the outskirts of the Royal City? Renato settled on that explanation for the moment, but regardless, he quietly raised his guard.
"Renato, if the spatial node really is beneath the Mage Tower, I suspect it would be located within the tower's foundations."
The female dragonborn hovered behind Renato, flying extremely low as she continued discussing their next steps through telepathy.
"Once we reach our destination, I'll use a spell to pass through the tower and search for the spatial node inside its foundations. After confirming its exact location, I'll lay out the teleportation circle. The entire process should take less than one natural hour, provided nothing interrupts me..."
With the map Klauthsura had drawn using psionics