Near Northwind Castle, in a hidden spot in the Zereya Hills.
More than twenty members of the Lionheart Knights lay in concealment, quietly waiting.
They were clad in heavy armor, with breastplates shaped like the roaring head of a lion, appearing mighty and imposing, and red cloaks bearing the emblem of the Boske House with two crossed swords and a lion.
One knight, watching the bipedal wyverns patrolling the sky, asked uneasily:
"Captain, we haven't seen the signal from His Grace, Duke Leo. Could they have already failed?"
"Keep waiting, Jaden, we have time."
The voice was calm and steady.
The knight who spoke stood out from the others, with a circle of black lion's mane around his neck, and the lion on his breastplate looking more lifelike—he was Frederick Orbi, one of the original seven Knight Commanders of the Lionheart Knights, known as the Black Lion Knight.
