A week passed.
The campaign in the West moved more smoothly than even Lucien had expected.
The cure met less resistance now.
Lucien kept receiving good news.
More settlements stabilized. More supply chains bent in their favor. More healers and intermediaries quietly aligned themselves with the Liberators.
Then came the most significant report of that week.
The Dawnblade Order had joined them.
They were a major faction in Nareth. They were one of the forces that had once joined the Stillness ruin expedition.
Their entry into the campaign gave the cure legitimacy in places where rumor alone would have taken longer to root.
Once Dawnblade joined, Nareth shifted much faster.
Too fast, perhaps, for comfort.
By the end of the week, Nareth was stabilizing ahead of expectation.
And beginning the next day, the cure would start surfacing in more random regions across the West.
That randomness was important.
It made the Liberators harder to map.
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