It was as if the wood still remembered being alive and it was using the Forgemastering process to heal itself. Instead of rejecting the power core, the branch was guiding it to the center of the branch so that it would replace its missing mana core.
"Your Majesty, Archmage Deirus blamed my mother for her death, saying that she deserved it for associating herself with Archmage Verhen and Archon Ernas. He also said that I'll end up dead like her if I don't cut my ties with them and called Mom an insolent woman!"
i laughed at first, but then i became a little scared.
"It depends on who's doing the recruiting," Captain Yang said. "Some take only the best fighters, while others prefer healers and herbalists and the like. I once saw a scribe get recruited — scrawny little girl, wouldn't last a second in a fight." He scowled. "But she got in, and I didn't."
"Which is a shame, I used it to roast some horrible people during the battle of Galangalen. I mean sure, I handed the spear out to random troops and I never exactly wieleded it myself… and those troops I gave it to were the enemy, but by all accounts it won the battle for us.