Complete the following text: he had already confirmed his ability to control the rift , and now with two hundred of his most loyal soldiers he would enter it -- to the dead with the keeper and his archaic laws . if the plague was real , he would send it running back through the black door and return home a hero . the keeper himself would have no choice but to bow before him . until then , secrecy was a must . the council would condemn him to death for the mere ability to open the
rift