Chapter 115

Maxi looked like a ghost as she made her way to the training grounds through the dark. She held up her lamp as she passed through the gate. The soldiers standing guard looked surprised to see her, but she ran straight for the council room without explaining her presence to them.

Angry shouts emanated from behind the door of the dimly lit building.

"We cannot afford to wait that long! We must leave as soon as tomorrow. It would take us twenty days to get there even if we hasten our departure!"

"Calm down, Sir Hebaron. The commander is right. There are only three or four vassalages on the way to the border, and they are small villages that do not have proper guilds, let alone a merchant guild that could supply us with provisions. And with all these monster attacks, we can't even be sure they are still there. It would be too dangerous for us to leave without a mage."