CH688 Aftermath – Judgement of Allies I
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"Young Master Alex didn't require your assistance?
"They prevailed against a force five times their size?
"Young Master Alex himself faced three Combat Masters alone—as a Third Circle sorcerer—and won?
"And there are members within his party who are stronger than their apparent rank?"
Each report delivered by the captain of the reinforcement company she had dispatched sent waves of shock through Lady Wintermere's mind.
She found it difficult to believe what she was hearing—yet she could not deny it.
News of Alex and his party mounting the heads of Brock Peyton and the other Lost Heathen Combat Masters upon the gates of the Fortuna estate had already reached her ears.
"You may leave. Get some rest… and thank you," she said at last, still struggling to process the weight of the information as she dismissed the captain.
The captain saluted and quietly withdrew from the room.
