When Malin saw Xing Chi, the Night Watcher of the National Church, he was in the midst of a squabble with Anthony over the issue of traveling north—Malin himself reckoned the battle in the north was somewhat dangerous, after all, who knew how many Black Orcs were encamped there, perhaps a thousand? Maybe two thousand? Or maybe even more had emerged from the woods in recent days.
In any case, Malin did not wish to bring the father of the future head of House Gallo onto the battlefield, this old patriarch, deemed a waste by some, could die for all he cared, but it would be no laughing matter if his apprentice lost his father before even being born.
But Anthony had a look of determined resolve, "We people of South Farole have an ancestral grudge against the Black Orcs so deep that heaven itself could not contain it, and it was they who forced us to cross the ocean in the past, now that we have a chance to kill some Black Orcs, how could I pass it up."
