Movements in Grinia Empire 

A few weeks after the departure of Minos and Starclaw from the largest city in the Snow area...

By now, the group of envoys sent by the Longus family to deal with Minos had finished their investigations into Minos' whereabouts and what that thing about Dry City was.

With those results, they were awaiting a response from their leaders on the Divided Continent, to whom they had sent the compilation of information they had recently gathered the previous day.

...

"So Minos Stuart is coming to us?" Patriarch Longus wondered aloud as he finished reading the information that had just arrived from the Black Plain Empire.

"It seems that he is not in the least bit afraid of us, patriarch." An elder said while having a smile on his face. "It seems he would rather face us head-on than hide..."