THE SHADOW HAS RISEN. THE ARMY IS MARCHING. THE SHIELD MUST HOLD.
The conspiracy in Silverwood was only the spark. Now, the fire is here.
The Rift-Lord—a warlord corrupted by the Void—has united the monsters of the eastern territories into a disciplined, unstoppable army. Oaken Pass is falling, and the Kingdom of Aeridor is blind to the true threat.
Operating as "Ghosts" for the Crown, Victor and Lysandra are the only thing standing between the horde and the heartlands. But Victor is broken. The cost of saving his friends has left him with a Fractured Mana Core, a debilitating wound that limits his power and threatens to tear his soul apart.
To stop the Rift-Lord, they cannot rely on armies. They need a weapon of mass disruption.
Their quest splits them apart: one team to the frozen Sunken Mines to claim the heart of a mountain, the other to the deadly Shadowmire Fen to steal a crystal from a swamp. Victor must forge these impossible artifacts into a Dissonant Regulator—a device capable of breaking the Rift-Lord's control.
But the Rift-Lord is waiting. And to defeat a monster, Victor may have to break the last rules holding his own soul together.
