Murphy had already learned from Triss that the First Lord of the Bloodbound Knights would come to support the battle. He was a powerful Gold-tier Blood Knight, equally adept at offense and defense, making him the perfect partner for the old knight, Finoch, in a frontline assault team.
Together, the two of them would be enough to keep Salokdar occupied in the Sacred Blood Pool. That left everyone else with just one objective!
While the fallen Blood Vulture patriarch was tied up, they had to do everything they could to sever his connection to the Sacred Blood Pool and destabilize the warp rift currently being guided by the pool's psychic beacon.
It hadn't opened in the material world yet, which meant it could still be destroyed.
It was like a layer of wrapping called "reality" that hadn't been broken yet. You could get as depraved as you liked, but if even a pinhole appeared, then even the gentlest touch might end up killing someone.
As soon as the warp rift began to destabilize, the young lady—the core of the plan—would immediately cast a spell within it. At the cost of destroying the Sacred Blood Pool, she would banish the warp's chaotic power back into the astral realm.
Triss would complete the final step herself.
Since the astral rift in Cadman City had only just closed and was still fragile, accomplishing this wouldn't be difficult.
Murphy couldn't help admiring the full three-step plan. It reminded him that his elder—and former Scarlet Witch—was no pushover when she got serious.
But even after considering every possibility, he hadn't expected the First Knight Lord who'd come to help to be such a goofball.
Well, a handsome, gentle, vain, and powerful goofball.
Just looking at the nearly endless assortment of roses he carried around was