Maya placed her palm flat on the console, golden light spreading through the system as she accessed the Order's own environmental monitoring network. The displays shifted, showing real-time data from around the world, data the Order had been collecting but deliberately misinterpreting.
"See for yourself," she said, directing Harlow's attention to the screens. "The decline began precisely when your ancestors initiated the Great Purge. Eight hundred years of gradual but accelerating ecological instability."
The displays showed unmistakable correlations, regions where dragon populations had been completely eradicated showing the most severe environmental degradation, while areas with surviving supernatural presence maintained relative stability.
"The sss," Michael observed, his enhanced pe
