The Runic Alchemist-Chapter 572: Not Enough

They were already surrounded by many pigmen, all shouting in a foreign language. Soon, some armored pigmen soldiers came, and the crowd made a way for them. They had come to pick them up. Lucian, along with the others, followed behind. They were led to the hidden stairs of the base step — each step of the shrine had them. When they had climbed it from inside with Damian, they had already seen it.

The inner city had totally changed with bright lights all around, the warmth in the snow region was something otherworldly.

Lucian's eyebrows rose, seeing the fancy palace built with perfectly cut stones. It was decorated like a royal residence — which it actually was. With a war going on, they had time to do such things? Well.. it could be said it was necessary to keep the morale of the civilians up and to have everything work as normal.

They met with more pigmen in fancy clothes, all bowing to them and showing the utmost respect. Soon they were all given a place to stay. After some time, they were called to a meeting. Fortunately, Mindseer was there, and she met all of them with warmth. She had been here for over seven years now and had learned the pigmen language — finally, they could understand what the pigmen were asking them. Grace could somewhat translate, but she wasn't fluent. She said the language itself had changed quite a lot.

The king.. The chief from before, entered the room, all pigmen bowing their heads. He did not stop to acknowledge any of them, though. The king, to the surprise of every pigman in the room, walked up to Sam and held his shoulders tenderly with his giant hands. Their reunion after 100 years was quite touching.

Heather also met up with Maelor and Alex, Grace met the king's family — the lady she knew from her stay in the pigmen village. It was a very emotional scene, but Lucian had had enough of it. It was too much for her, so she ignored them and sat near Mindseer.

"How is the situation?" Lucian asked.

Mindseer pried her eyes from Sam and the others and looked at Lucian beside her, her face losing color slightly. It was hard to say if she had aged — her appearance was still like that of a girl not much older than Lucian herself.

"Is the boy coming?"

"Damian?" she asked. Mindseer nodded.

"They went to find the Sun God. I don't think we'll see him or the other Highswords anytime soon.." Lucian answered.

Mindseer exhaled and replied,

"We won't be enough. The pigmen force is barely 80,000 — 40% second-rankers, and we five third-rankers. Two of us have already engaged the advanced party sent by Bloodedge. He alone commands over ten million of them, and then there's the main force of these black pigmen behind him under Shadecastor's control.."

Lucian sucked in her breath and muttered,

"How many?"

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The two, lost in conversation, had not noticed that the whole room had turned towards them, paying full attention to their words.

Mindseer answered,

"Over 50 million.." Then, looking down from Lucian's face, she added, "We need the boy's monstrous spells if these people are to survive. They're too stubborn to leave this place."