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For the rest of the night, Phuran tended to his wound hidden in the trees and watched Gildya adepts swarm the mansion. While they carried the corpses out, he dreaded spotting Cahala’s body among them, but the mage killer must have taken her away. How and when, Phuran couldn’t tell, but if the savage warrior sided with the demonologist and the treacherous adept, they likely had means to sneak away from the Gildya.
Time passed, but Phuran couldn’t make his move with all the scouts scattered around the woods, and in the dark, he wouldn’t be able to search for tracks anyway. With no other choice, he watched the bodies being carried out, all of the people dead. The mage killer left no one alive… Even though their lives mattered little in comparison to Cahala’s survival, such savagery and w
