In the end, by the time we walked past the gate, Adel was able to stop six hundred people before I had to replenish her mana. But she did a good job of reducing the mana consumption, and she even got better at targeting those she wished to cast it on, which made for very good progress.
Kim slowly trailed behind us in disbelief. She looked like she wanted to say something, but she held it back and had somewhat of an aggrieved expression on her face. She probably wondered why we would not stop this war when we could easily deal with everything if we so wished. But I am sure she also knew the answer to that as well. It was because it was not our problem, to begin with.