From his throne in the palace, Kaiden selected the passage from Japan on their shared map.
It emerged straight into the Verdant Expanse. The Dungeon-Born sentries he had left there stood between that opening and the palace, with the diverted monsters waiting nearby.
Yunohana followed his attention.
"This is what you noticed earlier."
"Anyone who gets through that cavern can walk straight toward our front door."
The laughter eased around the throne.
From the American gate, invaders first had to cross the Abyssal Cavern. Beyond it, one route ran through the Abyssal Corridor and Twilight Sink; the other took them through the Magma Vein Expanse and Virulent Mire before reaching the forest around his palace.
Yunohana leaned closer to the old magma route on the map, following its molten channels into the poisoned basin beyond them.
"May I ask how we intend to get through that ourselves?"
Kaiden looked up at her.
"We don't."
