Tier Five

The panel was dense with numbers, and Kael read every line of it.

He went building by building, then structure by structure, down through the long columns of data that described the bones of Ebonreach.

He studied what each hall did, what each workshop produced, and what each wall could take before it failed.

He read the stockpile figures and the population tally. He read the way a general reads a map the night before a campaign, committing every road to memory.

When he reached the bottom, he scrolled back to the top and stopped at a single line.

Level: 4.

Beneath it, the interface offered a short description of what the number meant. A level Four territory could draw on the Starstone's power to keep an entire city aloft, and that was where the stone's gift ended.

But if the city grew to level Five, the stone would wake further.