The border pass between Bellcephora and Atreterve was truly a woeful sigh for anyone with warm feelings towards the kingdom.
The forces meant to keep the approaching enemy at bay were fighting amongst each other while enchanters just passed them using the opening the internal conflict created.
Every company that waltzed through the border had at least one platoon where a single soldier in the middle was carrying a large backpack-like artifact with green and jet-black magic crystals embedded in its frame.
Even though wary about the outside, the soldiers from other platoons were focused around those artifact carriers.
It was a pattern that would have been caught on to immediately, but in the current situation even when some mages noticed it, there was nothing that they could do before reorganizing.
The kingdom of Bellcephora forces were in deep trouble...