Whilst the minor lords were each busy with their own missions, some managing to achieve true control over the realms they were to conquer, some getting close to it, and some constantly discovering a new challenge awaiting them after overcoming the previous one, all of the information concerning the conquest of the realms and the mission into Verdoyante was relayed back to the empire and most precisely, to the current leaders of the vanguard, Ourlst and Horhir, the hands of Loimos busy at work in the absence of their general.
Unlike with the rest, they had no news concerning him, the realm he had gone into did not allow for an undead to easily go back and forth.
They would only hear of the empire's glorious champion once he was done with this realm…
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"So, that's the one? Looks the same as the rest" an unclear amount of time ago, an undead and living stood before the pulsating orb of light that signified the entrance to a realm, both clad in black.