The next day, reports arrived from the shadows before dawn.
[East Continent.]
[Fragment-lost factions mobilizing.]
[Multiple Eternal-level participants confirmed.]
[Objective likely recovery of stolen Origin Core fragments.]
Lucien read the lines once.
Then again.
The ordinary witnesses had done their part.
Hunters had reported black-robed Eternals entering forbidden valleys.
The factions whose Origin Core fragments had been stolen were not stupid.
Greedy, cruel, arrogant, and soaked in old sins, perhaps.
But not stupid.
They had looked at the witness reports.
They had compared routes.
They had remembered the black-robed figures who had taken their fragments.
Then they had reached the same conclusion everyone careful was beginning to reach.
The thieves were not Lootwell.
They were hiding behind the old powers.
The factions had not gone separately.
That was the first interesting point.
They had joined forces.
