The expedition now numbering twenty of the world's finest warriors enters the Sunken City through a new rift that has opened in the earth. The city has changed. The inverted buildings are crumbling, the amber lights are dead, and the chains that held the metropolis to the cavern ceiling are snapping one by one. The Sleeper's influence is spreading.
They encounter the first of Amaranth's new guardians: The Weeping Knights soldiers who died in the Shattering and were resurrected by the Sleeper's power. They don't attack. They weep, and their tears are acid. Lee loses three of his team before they figure out how to bypass them.