Chapter 81: Elderly sorcerer
Irwin stared through the round window, the outside blurry due to the thin crystal sheet set within. It reminded him of the layers of ice inside the water barrels in Malorin, and he wondered how they had made it. Was it a carded crafter? It had to be.
After a few moments, he focused on what lay beyond.
The small rows of buildings around the tower barely looked like a town, stuffed with even more people than Degonda had, while seemingly hastily built shacks blocked entire passages leaving only a few partially open for traversal. Only the main road to the tower's entrance remained uncluttered.
Even though it was much smaller than Degonda, the buildings seemed similar, and as he watched the walls, he wondered if, with time, this place could potentially grow to become as big as Degonda.
Probably not, he thought as he looked into the distance at the only tower that he could see from where he stood.
It was a ransacked ruin, burned down, and, though he couldn't see them, definitely crawling with demons.
If not for the immense numbers of guards, rangers, and other fighters he'd seen while moving through the tiny town surrounding Coulwater Tower, this place would have likely suffered a similar fate.
That, and because they have that powerful sorcerer, Irwin thought as he thought back to the birds and the figure on it, blasting the Frost Wyrms as if it was nothing.
He continued looking around, only turning when Daubutim spoke.
"How much longer?" his friend asked.
Irwin turned back to the others, who were sitting around a massive wooden table that dominated the spacious room. Looking around, he sighed contentedly. It was comfortably warm in what seemed to be Lord Indoutor's war room. The walls were covered with maps of the region and small renditions of other towers with numbers and information below them. Of the over a dozen towers, four had large crosses through them, likely marking them as fallen, while two had red markers.
"Uxin'tar should be here in a few moments," Indoutor answered Daubutim's question.