Read Blackstone (Book 2) Storyline:
“Well, let’s have it. Where do you think we should go?”“Saoleord.”
Siobhan and Conli both froze. Saoleord? The city that no one
ever visited and only natives could find? “Why?” Conli asked slowly, blue eyes
studying Fei’s face.
Fei seemed to take a breath before admitting quietly,
“Because I think we’ll need help very soon.”
“Fei, I’m lost. Why would you want to go home?”
“I have seen this pattern before. The last time that one
country was pushed into an economical depression by another country, it led to
war.”
Siobhan’s blood froze. “War?”
“Can a war even be possible?” Conli objected. “A skirmish I
can see, one guild or one city attacking another is very possible. But to have
a war, an actual war as you mean it, you’d have to get several main guilds to
cooperate enough to fight in a united front. We can barely get them to agree on
trade agreements.”
Fei shook his head, mouth set in a grim line. “Orin is
desperate. They will band together to pillage and loot, if nothing else. I tell
you, the history that I learned showed this exact set of events happening over
and over again. We are primed for war but we are not ready for it. If Orin
pulls together an army and marches against us, they can destroy us city by city
without anyone being able to stop them.”
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