The news about a mysterious barrier appearing out of nowhere and isolating the Prime Celestial Preserve from the outside world spread like wildfire.
The Aquila and Dragod empires of the west entered into a competitive state, to rush at the preserve first and gather information. The largest empire on the continent, the Avastha Empire of the east mobilised numerous groups and assigned covert teams to get information about what was happening. Its neighbour, the Barbarian Land, was rather cool-headed for a geographical area reigned by people of brute force.
It was needless to explain the state of the Giza Alliance because they were the first. Their distant neighbour, the Logos Alliance southwest to the Giza, gave priority to internal matters, but they did attend the race. The twin kingdoms of Emeralkine and Ferread were reluctant to send troops while defending against Rifts.
But what was most important at the moment was the situation in the north.
