"Can you guys explain to me what happened here?" Ziriel asked. Two hours had passed, and it was almost sunset. Velryna and Simon had already recovered reasonably well and were now getting ready to head to the Imperial Castle.
"A little while after we left you, we were traveling peacefully for just a few minutes when I felt a Mage watching us from afar. I stayed alert, but within seconds... The knights were all killed," revealed Simon as he hid his face with his hand. "They must have cleared the streets by now... it was so sudden that I didn't have time to protect them with magic... If only I had warned them earlier..." He muttered, upset. Lives always mattered, even though they had only known each other for a short time. Unlike monsters, Simon still valued life, and he knew that the deaths of those knights were one of his failures. He had made a mistake, and their deaths weighed heavily on him.
