Chapter 763: Section 519: Scenery of Light (Part 2)
Old Francis waited until three in the afternoon, but he did not get to see Master Malin; instead, emergency team members arrived.
With their explanation, Old Francis figured out everything that had happened in the town—Chaos, corruption, his Apprentice Roben had ultimately not escaped the twisted fate of mutation.
Fate once again snatched away the person he cherished most from before Old Francis.
Old Francis was heartbroken, but what pained him even more was that Master Malin and his mechanical body had stayed there. Could he defeat Roben, could he purify it, could he come back alive?
Old Francis didn’t know. He promptly contacted Todd Spencer, who was powerless—he wasn’t adept at opening teleportation passages, so the two of them sought Raglov Dender, a Mage who immediately began preparing the coordinates to open a portal to a Mage Tower owned by a lesser mage near the town, but the teleport failed.
Raglov and Todd surmised that it was likely spatial interference—in other words, something big had happened in the southern town.
Thus, Raglov immediately reported this situation to the Mage Tower. Old Francis returned to the Church and once again inquired with the emergency team commander, but the young man couldn’t give a clear explanation either. In the end, Old Francis could only hope that Master Malin could leave that dreadful land.
Yet, one after another, bad news came. Several villages in the southern area had been attacked. The warrior mages who ventured out during the blizzard confirmed that at least six human settlements had been set ablaze, all near the incident area.
This confirmed the presence of Chaos warbands—it was the only explanation for the simultaneous attacks on those settlements.
The Mage Tower had begun to mobilize and Mage messengers were dispatched further south to various nations. Under their alliances, they all were obliged to offer aid when a Chaos warband appeared. Royal couriers would head to the eastern and western provinces to muster troops—Chaos invasions were no trifling matter, and the royal family must immediately convene an army, lest the Chaos warbands launch a surprise attack on The Capital.
Before long, a messenger from the region of Carterburg approached Copenhagen, "Could there be trouble for Master Malin!?"