The second emergency task was worse than the first, and everyone knew it the moment Marcus read it out.
[Emergency Task: Sector 9, the Threnhold Reach.]
[Two kingdoms overrun. Breach points: 5 unheld. Estimated hostile presence: extreme.]
[Warning: Sector 9 has already claimed responders from three separate kingdoms.]
"Already claimed responders," Lily repeated. "That's the Six telling us people have died answering this."
"That's exactly what it is," Rudra said.
Nobody spoke for a moment. Eleven hours in, forty-three wounded, two positions already fallen back, and the layer was asking them to send people into something that had killed the last three kingdoms who tried.
Big D's voice came through the link, and for the first time all event, he didn't answer immediately.
"How many would it take to matter?" he finally asked.
