While Minos and his people continued their journey to leave Zocarro, the situation in the Spiritual World had changed for the worse in the more than two years that had passed since Irpoll became involved in the War of the Worlds.
After the initial attacks on The Adamant Land, Irpoll had successfully reduced the Mechanic Empire to a fraction of its size!
The state that had once been sovereign of its own solar system, with worlds from several galaxies and other solar systems in its own galaxy under its control, had lost almost everything it had in those 2 years.
When the forces oppressed by the Mechanic Empire learned of the fragile situation their rulers were in after being weakened by the Spiritual World and then by Irpoll, many worlds previously under the control of that state rebelled. The end of such a universal empire began for the forces of The Adamant Land.
