Pointing at the tower and wiping off his sweat, Captain Roland screamed, "He is going to get killed in there!"
"I know!" Osric responded, "But so will we if we go in there. We run. We live for today, and if she for some reason spares him, we will save him when we return."
Captain Roland wanted to disagree, but it was hard to. If they die here then that will be it, no one will know what happened here, and even if they do it might be too late. However, if they were to leave here they might get a chance to survive.
Roland reluctantly nodded before running towards Veridiana.
While in the tower, the wizard was now stuck in a corner, his mana shields up, blocking the fiery inferno that was coming his way.
Many times he risked getting burnt, but at this moment, it didn't seem that any of it was about to hit him.
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