Flying Mount

As the trio made their way inside the academy campus, Lisa filled in Adam on all the details since he was missing when the Headmistress was addressing the students.

"Our team has been dispatched to Stardale, located in the east," the emerald-eyed young lady began. "It's a stronghold city bordering the Murky Mountains and is currently under attack from the beast tide."

"What about the orcs?" Adam asked solemnly.

"Not many of them," Edward chimed in. "The beasts are the first wave of attack. Although there are some trolls and ogres mixed in."

"So the orcs are using them as meat shields, huh?" Adam muttered as he stroked his chin.

The couple nodded with grim expressions.

If the magical beasts which already numbered in the tens of thousands were the first wave, then what would happen when the orcs' main army joined the war? Just based on this, they could tell that the war would go on for a long time and it would be brutal.