Cassian and Lumine arrived just in time as the army of a thousand soldiers marched out of camp to aid the Karmen Earldom against the cult. Their commander was a seventh-circle warrior, Naset Lawk.
Alongside him were a few dozen higher-circle warriors and mages—not a large force, since sending more would have weakened Magisteria's own defenses. But it was enough. The bulk of the army consisted of first to third-circle warriors and mages, numbering more than one hundred. Then there were the ordinary human soldiers—far from useless. While they couldn't take on powerful monsters alone, they fought effectively in formation, backed by mana-powered weapons.
Cassian noticed some of them carrying strange devices: tube-like contraptions with handles made of gleaming metal, covered in intricate mechanisms. The most important part, though, was the mana crystal embedded near the grip—the power source for whatever those weapons did.
