“What?” “The King thinks we were a mistake. He wants to perform the summoning ritual again and call more heroes to this world.” “How can they do that again? Isn’t there a huge cost or something?” “I think they can keep doing it so long as they’ve got enough [Mages]. They were saying that it took a lot of mana—and something else—but they want to give it another shot.” “I can’t really blame them. Can you?” Richard laughs, and looks at the hay on the stable floor. “No. I can’t either. But it’s a mistake.” It is. More people. I try to imagine that. I don’t want to see more people our age dying.
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Um ... no --- he'd still want more -- PARTICULARLY if you were actually as intended.
He's looking for nukes & cannon fodder. Either will do.