Paying Lord had given them seven days to gather, which was clearly enough time for all the Godslayers taking part in the operation to prepare.
Well, the tactful way to put it was "make preparations." The less tactful way was "settle your affairs."
After all, even counting the outsiders from Transia as "helpers" who were really just cannon fodder, the entire Godslayer team numbered no more than five hundred. Even with a large number of Gold-rankers leading the way, sending so few people into the gnoll gods' sacred ground in Moss Valley to fight a soon-to-awaken evil god meant that more than half of them probably wouldn't make it back home alive.
Giving them a little extra time to spend with their families or hurry up and write their wills and bury their treasures was only right.
Of course, the reason they'd been given so long was also to accommodate certain people traveling from afar who wanted to take care of some business along the way.
For instance, beneath the night sky illuminated by Transia's eerie purple arc, the Godslayer team from the Plantagenet Kingdom had set up camp on a wilderness at the border of the Andmar Hills and East Prussia.
The team had been personally appointed by King Louis. It wasn't large, but it was highly elite.
Its leaders were two Royal Sword Saints and a Purification Sage supported by the royal family, all Gold-rankers. Thirty Silver-rank Plantagenet cavalry formed its main force. In addition, the team included a psychic master from the Tower of Rings.
She was a halfling, the newly appointed tower master of the Tower of Manipulation, a subsidiary of the Tower of Rings that had just undergone a purge.
She had another identity, too: the only daughter of the late Professor Bach, a master