Elymius peered towards the sky one last time before joining the remaining survivors of the battle they had lost to the enemy to return back to the main encampment which was still a long way off from the threshold of the fort. He no longer saw the rift that had tore the sky into two and noticed that the barren sky had returned back to being bare an hour after the bright light had disappeared from their very sight. Despite the fact that the Agekians were mystified by the whole incident surrounding their eventual escape and the mysterious apparel of the bright light, they were left to question themselves the tides of the war which had fallen into the hands of the Zekians and what was to befall their fate in the subsequent battles.