Meanwhile crops flourish within our expanded territory while neighboring packs report sudden blight and failure in fields that once thrived.
“It is imbalance,” an elder accuses.
“It is correction,” Simon counters quietly.
The religious fracture sharpens further.
Temple loyalists splinter and form a purity faction that rejects not only my declaration but the physical changes occurring in the land, and they gather at the remaining temple stones and begin sabotaging red wolf supporters by vandalizing homes and disrupting supply lines.
They attempt another cleansing ritual at the edge of the exposed tunnels, chanting against the rising while holding relics recovered from distant sanctuaries.
The relics do not respond as expected.
Instead an ancient relic hidden elsewhere activates in op
