After securing control over Babet, Cassian and his team moved to the next village. News of the monster wave had spread quickly, and most villages had already been evacuated. The only people left to rescue were those who had fled from deeper settlements and, for various reasons, had become stranded here.
Most of them were either injured or burdened by wounded companions, making them too slow to escape the initial wave of monsters. Meanwhile, the higher-ranked warriors—including Third and Fourth Circle warriors—and mages, such as Pyraxis and Solvaris, the mage equivalents of those warrior ranks, had taken charge of the more dangerous battles ahead.
Cassian was amazed by these mages. He didn't know much about how they cultivated their power—unlike Circle Warriors, whose progression he had a clear understanding of.
