"Uh, although I don't want to spoil the mood, but..."
Dandelion, standing nearby, also looked grim, but still spoke up as a reminder.
"He's got half of his ribs shattered, and your Demon Hunter's magic potions won't..."
"That's right, which is why I won't use the Demon Hunter's magic potions to save him... you will save him."
Lann handed over the supporting Stuart to Ged.
Ged took over, asking skeptically, "Hand him over to us?"
Once he asked, he immediately realized, and his face turned sullen.
"You want us to leave? After everything we've been through together?"
"Precisely." Lann acted as if he didn't see their clearly not pleased expressions. "Look at this smoke column, everyone."
This Ring Mountain, which had buried an entire fully-staffed Niflgaard regiment within it, looked like a massive furnace.
Dry vegetation had caught fire, and a gigantic smoke column at least a kilometer wide was rising into the sky.
