Location: Temple of Light - Oracle Chamber | Upper Realm (Radiant)
Time: Day 215 - 216 (Doha Actual) | Calendar: 6 - 7 Voidmarch, 9938 AZI
Sharlin sat at her desk, staring at the communication crystals she'd activated hours ago.
Wine helped. A little. The glass sat half-empty beside scrolls detailing her spy network's current deployments. Lower Realm coverage was thinner than she'd like—maintaining agents there cost enormous resources. The realm boundary between Upper and Lower was Ala's work, designed to protect the weakest realm from predation by the strong.
Opening a stable passage took days of ritual preparation. And the price...
Sharlin's agents who'd accepted posts in the Lower Realm had their cultivation permanently damaged. Blazecrowned reduced to Inferno-tempered. Inferno-tempered knocked down to Flamewrought. The realm crossing burned through their foundations like acid, Ala's protection ensuring the strong couldn't simply descend and conquer.
