Oh, right. For a moment Zorian had forgotten who he was talking with.
They spent the rest of the way home arguing about what the best setup for a modern portable palace would look like. The main point of contention was that Zach wanted to make an arena full of actual monsters to fight, whereas Zorian argued that sophisticated training dummies were better because they were less likely to break out of their containment and rampage through the entire place.
“It’s just not the same,” Zach complained, shaking his head sadly.
In the end they had to agree to disagree on the issue.
All the preparations were complete. Soldiers were recruited, human mercenaries and aranea hired, golems made, wild monsters dominated into serving as combat support, additional equipment bought, and several li
