[ Broken magic systems, hm. Flynn's smile turns just a shade wry at that — though, unlike the sound of Syrlya's world, it wasn't hard to follow the flow of just why Terca Lumireis' had broken in the way it had. It's just as well Judith isn't here for this. ]

A few hundred years... It's possible that in that time, the people of your country could come up with some approach to deal with that beast. [ A little pause, because he doesn't want to sound overly negative about it. ] Barrier magic is some of the most important remaining technology the Empire had from earlier civilizations. With the amount of monsters our world has, until recently it was almost impossible for a town to exist without one. But it was certainly harder for the different groups to work together when we were divided like that, and only knights or the hunting guilds could easily travel between cities. I wonder what kind of answer we could have come up with sooner if things were different.

[ Well, that's only monsters, though. He blinks a little at Syrlya's rather casual summation of 'end of all things' there. ]

I'm glad to hear that the Void isn't more of a commonplace problem for you, then.

[ smh that I'm getting Void lore one of the rare times I'm not playing a Rays character ]