After several days of fruitlessly searching for the orb by Hugh and tireless work from everyone else, it was time to actually begin exterminating the rats on a larger scale, no longer small experiments that would at most take out a few hundred of the pests.
Using the results of their investigations and the collaboration of the smartest strategists of the gathered mages, they had come up with a somewhat decent plan. It would be difficult to completely eradicate all the rats in one go, but it would drastically reduce their numbers.
It was also the plan with the largest chance of success given the time frame and the resources available. It was after all only a small, low level plane's emergency. The forces gathered in response in just a few days would only be so much. Just getting a fifth level mage to help hadn't been a guarantee, and until Hugh had shown his attitude, Amber, along with most residents of the plane had been overjoyed at the news.
