Poisoned Chalices (Part 1)

'Easy. Once your people overpopulate a pacified area, they get split again and move to a new settlement.' Faluel replied. 'Jiera is very big and most of it is now uninhabited. There's plenty of space for you and plenty of monsters to fight.

'The idea is to establish self-sufficient fortresses over the mana geysers at the fringes of the known monster tides. From there your people will whittle them over time with coordinated attacks from every side.

'The monsters tribes that comprise the tide will be slowly surrounded and decimated until they no longer pose a threat to the balance.'

'And what if we actually succeed? What will happen when there will be no more enemies to fight and no more geysers for us to inhabit?' The Hati Queen's mind felt cold and sharp as the winter's wind.