Chapter 174

"Well, yes, but with Sektor already back…" Dean trailed off, then continued with a sigh, "I reckon we'll be enlisted into the campaign. Not that we mind. We came prepared for such a possibility when we left Nornui, but… I confess I was hoping for good news."

Maxi looked at the twins. As if discomfited by the curious crowd, the Umri boys were nervously glancing about with their hats pulled low.

Instead of waiting by the gate for Anette and Sidina to enter the city as she would have liked, Maxi took the boys away from the congested roadside. "How many mages… did the Tower dispatch in total?"

"Fifty-five, including fourteen senior mages from Urd," Alec replied as he hurried along. "And we're expecting an additional twenty-four senior mages to join us from the various regions of the continent."