Chapter 51: The Uprising Begins
Lord Garrett Blackwood - The Signal
The crystal device pulsed three times in rapid succession, its light cutting through the pre-dawn darkness of Garrett's hidden chamber like a blade through silk. After two years of careful preparation, the signal he'd been waiting for had finally arrived.
Three days. Three days since Elaric's fleet had disappeared beyond the horizon, carrying with it the military strength that had held the western kingdoms in terrified submission. Three days since forty-seven warships had sailed east in pursuit of whatever romantic obsession had driven their construction, leaving behind an empire built on fear and systematic oppression.
An empire now vulnerable to the kind of coordinated uprising that desperate people could accomplish when properly organized and adequately supplied.
"Begin," he whispered to the crystal, his words transmitted instantly to network nodes throughout the conquered territories. "Operation Restoration is aut
