Chapter 76 Weaving The Threads Anew

• The immediate crisis in The Whispering City of Zephyrion had been averted. The elemental grid hummed with restored vitality, lights shone steadily across the floating islands, and the fear-induced psychic siren had dissolved into silence.
• But as the physical tremors subsided, the deeper, more insidious wounds left by the Shadow Weaver’s desperate assault became starkly visible. The underlying xenophobia and distrust, once subtly cultivated, now festered openly. Citizens eyed each other with suspicion, the memory of chaotic elemental surges and plummeting platforms turning into accusations.
• The Weaver’s attack had failed to shatter the city physically, but it had succeeded in amplifying existing tensions, making the "healing" phase a far more delicate and arduous task. Zephyrion was calm, but fractured, a collection of wary enclaves rather than a unified metropolis.