The telepathic connection between the four Dragonborns remained silent for several long moments after that realization. Only the sound of storms roaring across distant skies accompanied the heavy tension spreading between their minds.
"So what now?" Then Eccar finally spoke first. He asked grimly. "Do we go back?"
Nobody answered immediately because all of them already understood how terrible the situation had become.
If the kingdoms truly were under attack right now, then there was a possibility that countless people would die every minute they remained away from them. But at the same time, abandoning the expeditions would create another disaster entirely.
The five fragments of the Sky Anchor still needed to be recovered. Without those fragments, the Sky Anchor could never be rewritten. And if that failed, then eventually the entire world itself would collapse no matter how many civilians they managed to save now.
