Four high mystics dead before the alarm could be raised. Salim covers his mouth and nose with his hands, horrified. “Your assassin friends are very effective,” Balam remarks, his eyepiece flickering with green light. “Look: the masked warriors on the battlefield are already in chaos. Makes me wonder why the sorcerers spread themselves out like that, with limited line of sight to each other and no means of communicating remotely. It’s like they didn’t expect anyone to target them. The other three still don’t know what’s happening.” Precisely the weakness Salim identified and exploited. The
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