Liz checked her watch and said, “We were told that we wouldn’t be deployed until tomorrow, but I’d like to get some light sparring and team tactics training in tonight. Nothing crazy, since we don’t have a healer. But enough so that when we get started, we don’t have to fight together blindly.” No one disagreed, so they went to find a training room, and saw that mostly everyone had the exact same idea. All of the training rooms they came across were already occupied. The Golem Battalion had been nearly fully staffed with the arrival of the Pathers. It didn’t escape anyone’s notice that there were no teams consisting of cultivators on the Path and kingdom cultivators together. They were always in separate groups. They stood around for nearly ten minutes, until Conor asked, “Does anyone k

