"What…do we do now?"
The question hung in the air like a sharpened scythe, glistening with a menacing, bloody light.
It came from the mouth of a junior but crashed into the hearts of the older generation. The reality of the situation was hard to accept, but more importantly, the implications were harrowing to think about.
Countless years of accumulated effort and resources meant to support their various factions for thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of years into the future, either for personal cultivation or trading for appropriate resources were gone without any potential for return. The sheer enormity of this was simply far too hard to describe in words!
