After a few days, the evacuation process had officially started, but only a small part of the inhabitants of First Ignition had been successfully moved away. The request for aid from high level explorers or forces still hadn't been approved, and by how things looked, there would be another few days until it was, most likely by the time Yellow Sparks would be gone from the next edition of maps.
The Rat King had also reached the border of the wasteland, not leaving a single piece of evidence behind of its murder of several convoys and groups of merchants.