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The Witch Hunter, a gaunt woman named Elsbeth, did not raise her voice. She never did. “The High Elves withdrew to the Isle of the Dead. The Empire has its own wounds to bind. You have what you have, Sir Roland.”

Elsbeth’s eyes narrowed. “You speak of a counter-offensive. With what army?”

Kaelen counted the chimes. Seven. The number of Nurgle. The number of years the mist had held. return of reckoning

Sir Roland’s face was a mask of boiled leather and old ideals. “The beacons signal for aid that does not come.”

The mist curled around them as the three walked toward the war council. Somewhere in the darkness beyond the gate, a bell tolled—slow, wet, wrong. The Witch Hunter, a gaunt woman named Elsbeth,

“Then we use it,” Kaelen said. “Twenty of us. Dwarfs, men, whatever souls are mad enough to follow. We bypass his army and shatter the ritual. Without the Rotfather’s blessing, his followers will turn on each other within a day.”

Sir Roland snatched the parchment, read it, and laughed—a bitter, cracking sound. “Thirty days? We will be lucky to hold thirty hours if the Rotfather marches.” The Empire has its own wounds to bind

Return of Reckoning , they called it. The slow, brutal crawl back from the edge of annihilation.