Chapter 213
Crunch. Crunch.
The Empire, Hermes Province. The early edge of winter, rare snowflakes settling quietly in the south.
Crunch. Crunch.
Ezel Runselot stepped into the unfamiliar landscape. As a senior-rank mage of Sentio Magic Tower, she had been dispatched alongside several fellow mages, Jun Kandel among them.
"......Things have changed a lot."
The words left Ezel as a soft murmur, visible in the cold air like breath.
The Hermes they remembered had been nothing more than a southern backwater. But Maximilian and Ebenholtz's investment, along with the presence of Aternum, the munitions factory that had filled the void left by Gigantes, had transformed this frontier city completely.
"There's something strange about the atmosphere."
The other mages looked around with bright eyes.