"Lady Audrey, Blackmoon Castle is just ahead. We've already arranged for everyone to rest according to your instructions."
A bronze-tier mage from the Mage Guild spoke respectfully to the woman in front of him.
"Very good."
Audrey sat on a white horse; she played with her nails as she replied to him casually.
They were at the outskirts of the Misty Forest—it was also the only way to get to Blackmoon Castle from Monte Town. Horse carriages were parked around the forest, and there were armored mercenaries and mages in the carriages. They were eating and talking to each other—there were more than a hundred of them, and their bodies emitted a powerful aura.
The Mage Guild had organized an army of elites, and all the participants were at least bronze-tier. Fifty bronze-tier warriors and mages, respectively, would be a destructive force if they were placed at the border.