Karl pulled up the System interface and looked at the Guild interface.
{Guild Members Active} 999+
{Guild Rank} War Champion
{Full Guild Privileges Granted}
{Guild Branches In Range} 12
"What branch are you from? If they're in range, I can send a message for you and hope that someone receives it." Karl suggested.
All the others silently checked their interfaces at the same time. They were all Darklight Host members, but they hadn't thought to see if they could interact with the Guild in a while, since the only members were them plus Supreme Lady Matilda and the two under her branch, which now included Tiffani and one other.
[We've been here before. This timeline. This is just before I met you for the first time.] Cara announced.
She had been watching random events in her Precognition spell mirror, and just happened to see their current activities, which came with a basic time reference.
It might be off by a few years or a decade, but it should be close.
[Well, this should be interesting. Everything really was shutting down at this point, and it would be a very long time before they came back online again.] Karl informed her.
[Yeah, Spicy Dragon agrees that it's going to be fun to have us here.]
[Wait, what?] Karl asked.
[Oh, I messaged her once I realized we found a fun place. We keep each other up to date on new developments.] Cara explained.
And, as they were thousands of years into the past, this would have been the first time that the two had spoken to each other. But apparently Supreme Lady Matilda had just rolled with the flow, and didn't question what Cara was talking about.
Or, she might have already foreseen this event, and wasn't shocked.
It was hard to tell with the Chaos Dragon.
Karl sent off a Guild Message, hoping that someone would reply. {I am at the 42nd Narazir Zone way station. There is only one Guild Member here, waiting for replacement members who are overdue. Does anyone know their status?}
There was a long pause, then a return message came to him.
{Who is this, and how did you reactivate the Guild Messaging function? Tell Mira to retreat to the Khizdila Guild House. The outposts have been abandoned, and the Guild functions are failing fast.
If the Armies show up, the farmers should protect me.
I've been here for five years now, and I know everyone. The trolls don't need much healing, but I help with childbirth and nature magic for the crops."
If Cara was right, and this was the same time when he found her, the System was still going strong close to home. The Divine Beast Nation had no problem keeping Guild functions active, but that was halfway around the world.
So, it might not be long before the issues spread.
Karl considered sending a message to Orthos, the Bronze Dragon. But if it was before he became the War Champion of Bunga, that might just cause unnecessary confusion.
Orthos was on his list of {Friends} in the System interface, and showed as active, so the dragon was definitely alive and a member of the Guild. Karl wasn't sure when or how anyone got added to the Friends list, but there were a startling number of people on it.
City Lords, Generals, some Innkeepers and people they had gone to Dungeons with. Most were showing as inactive, but the members of his group and the two Ancient Dragons were all showing as available for messages.
Mira gestured further into the Temple. "Now that we've sorted out my future plans, should we finish the tour, and go rescue the Black Dragon from the enthusiasm of a Green Dragon Cleric who just found a shrine to the Bunny God?"
Karl nodded. "Yes, let's see the rest of the Temple. There is a lot of history hidden in here, and my team is making notes, so that none of it is forgotten if something should happen to the building during the unrest."
Mira laughed and shook her head. "I can't see the army caring about the building itself. If anything, the locals might tear it down to do home improvements once I am gone. The Old Gods aren't the Troll Gods. Or, most of them aren't. There are some shrines to the Troll Shaman Gods in here."
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