The word of the roads being closed was given a few days later once the Mages Guild had given out the order of an extremely high priority order for mages in service to return to Ress as soon as possible. Failure to do so will result in the mage to be disbarred from the mages guild and they can be hunted down as rogue mages. This was why most of the Mages obliged and under the noses of the neighbouring Kingdoms, the mages swiftly went back to Ress.
Such piece of information was so abrupt that even the neighbouring kingdoms were not able to do anything to prevent this from happening. And with this, they instantly lost all the Mages in Service in a blink of an eye, increasing their local mages workload by at least two to three times.
