Vizet said, "It was the battle from before. The Isaiah Society set a trap and lured us to France."
"In fact, the Isaiah Society had been making preparations there for a long time. They tried to sacrifice an entire city in exchange for an attack descended by 'The Master.'"
"Even after all this time, the Isaiah Society's methods are still this vicious!" Helga Hufflepuff's eyes revealed her astonishment. "It's truly unbelievable!"
Although Vizet's description of the battle sounded understated, anyone who considered his wording carefully could sense just how perilous that battle had been.
From what they knew of the Isaiah Society, if the Society had assembled such a formation, it would have been unimaginably difficult for the Guardian to achieve final victory.
At that thought, Helga Hufflepuff could not help closing her eyes.
She truly could not imagine how many Wizards had been sacrificed behind that victory.
After all, the times had changed. The Isaiah Society faced by the Guardian today surely differed in some ways from the Isaiah Society of a thousand years ago.
Battles on such a scale were something they had only glimpsed through Merlin's accounts back then, catching a sense of their strangeness and vastness.
That meant that, in certain respects, the Vizet before them had gone even further than founders like themselves...
Like Merlin in those days, Vizet had not only confronted Morgan le Fay's scheme head-on, but had also... miraculously returned victorious.
Merlin's struggle against Morgan had entangled half his life. In most direct duels, victory had often belonged to Merlin.
Yet in that crucial battle, Merlin had suffered his cruelest and most painful defeat at Morgan le Fay's hands.
The consequences of that rout had been devastating. What Merlin regretted most deeply was the fall of King Arthur.
According to Merlin's later