Elijah lost around fifty five magic users in the first battle with the royal warriors and only now, he lost another nine magic users.
Magic user was hard to come to, especially in this continent, therefore, losing sixty four of them was a great number for Elijah. It was alarming. They couldn't lose the magic user anymore, since he needed at least, fifteen magic users to perform the curse on Zuri.
There was one thing that kept bothering Elijah though. The fact that Khaos didn't do anything to stop Zuri when he could and chose to wait for her to kill nine of the magic users before Rhett and Bryden stopped her, didn't sit well with Elijah.
There was only one reason for that;
Khaos wanted to reduce the cult's power.