A Dangerous Path (Part 1)

"Put Lord Qisal's worries at ease and that thing will fade away." Aalejah said.

"Fine, I yield!" M'Rael ordered the guards to drop their weapons and deactivated the arrays before walking down the stairs toward Lith with his hands up. "The truth is that the World Tree isn't interested in a mere census anymore.

"They have reached out to our colony in the hope that we would abandon our home and move to their Fringe. The Yggdrasill needs lots of manpower to preserve the knowledge they have accumulated and keep watching over Mogar once they leave."

"Leave? To go where?" Faluel asked, glad to notice that the Chancellor's change of attitude had quelled the Void's rage.

Or rather, the Voidfeather Dragon had restrained him, to hear the rest of the story. The Void had no means to attack from a distance and with his aura sealed, the fog had stopped spreading.