Anyway, despite the Founders’ arguments, Toughhold’s ideas about forming a magical military hadn’t turned out to be useful—there had not been a war on American soil since the Service had been created. It was so successful that within a year of its founding, similar institutions were created by a number of African and Southeast Asian governments, and more world countries followed in their footsteps shortly after. The Service had existed more or less unchanged for a century and a half, bringing peace and an unprecedented level of cooperation between magicians and civil society, which in turn had
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