After the initial chaos Cassian and his team faced, the battlefield grew even more active. Battles now broke out almost every week, and no one knew when the next large monster wave would come—only that each one was bigger than the last.
Karmen's main forces were more than enough to deal with these waves head-on, while the arriving reinforcements mainly focused on hunting down stragglers and preventing any survivors from joining the next attack.
Some soldiers were assigned to track down the summoning circles responsible for calling the monsters, while others ventured deeper into the forest to investigate whether the cult had established a hidden base there—possibly the source of these relentless waves.
Cassian received an unexpected summons to the commander's tent once again. This time, however, there was an additional figure among the four people he had seen before just from afar, Princess Aria Kiew Karmen of the Karmen Earldom.
