The northern district operation proceeded for forty-two hours without major complications.
Amaron tracked it through Guild notifications and the periodic updates Sareth's team sent back to the coordination center. Standard containment protocols. Managed civilian evacuation. Progressive threat neutralization. Everything was going according to plan.
And then, on hour forty-three, the situation changed.
The Guild notification came through at the eighteenth hour on day two hundred and forty-two: "Grade 5 manifestation escalated to Grade 6. Secondary rift core detected. Containment team requesting immediate S-rank support. Civilian evacuation zone expanded. Estimated casualties if containment fails: five thousand plus."
Amaron read the notification three times and felt something in his chest go cold.
