“We must take the path that makes our success most certain, regardless of the permutations of what others do,” Qingzhi said. “This means we must attract the entire force sent to investigate us and destroy it. We will have more time to gather our forces then, but not much more. The Storm King will surely realize we are moving against him once his servants do not report. But by then, we must have already moved. The timeline is advanced… by about a month.”