Within minutes, every high-ranking Tamer across the kingdom knew the truce was over.
Having the city's new defensive perimeter compressed down to a mere fifteen percent of its original size turned out to be a blessing for communication.
With the entire surviving population packed shoulder to shoulder inside the central districts, urgent dispatches did not even need messenger birds; the news traveled from mouth to mouth through the crowded streets in a matter of moments.
Selthia was marching ahead of schedule... Everyone had to mobilize right now.
Less than ten minutes after the horns sounded, the strongest dual-contract Tamers in the Vanguard had already formed a tight line in the subterranean vault beneath the royal castle.
