The hobgoblin’s last words had cast a shadow over everyone who defended the city gates that day, because after witnessing the newly merged goblin army he led, they truly believed he could make good on that threat.
He proved to the mages who were so sure of themselves, that the world wasn’t a bed of roses, and that if they didn’t fight often, and they only trained at their own convenience within their clans without real combat experience, then they were no different from greenhorns.
This was one of the main reasons most of the mage clans petitioned the City Lord to shorten the Gordons Clan’s battle exemption from two months to one.
Even the new clans that had just entered the city agreed, begging the City Lord to reduce the Gordons’ leave so they could return quickly to the battlefield a
