"Alright, this is the moment!"
The missionary of the Eternal Fire raised the church's sacred book high, its hard cover adorned with flame patterns reflecting a blue light.
That was the Demon-Blocking Gold embedded in the book's cover.
It was four o'clock in the morning, the most weary and neglected time in human schedules.
And on the hill where High Hill Castle was located, a fully armed human army was converging from several directions.
Velen had been a land of no value, except when Temeria's borders were not yet stable, and a fortress was established here for military reasons, garrisoned with troops.
For hundreds of years, it was not worth the expenditure of a military scale to operate here.
The mere presence of an army for a day is a colossal expenditure, and its mobilization doubles that cost.
To scrape clean the entire surface of Velen would require a large army.
Yet the benefits after scraping the land do not justify the expenses of mobilizing the army.
