Chapter 115: Refusing to Admit Defeat
The time rewound to an earlier point, in another region of the Eloria Plane.
At the edge of the swamplands, Bert Vera Augusta led a small team as they trudged laboriously through the mud.
Besides her, the team consisted of two capable fellow apprentices from Noren Academy No. 13.
They had all been carefully selected by Augusta, geniuses in their respective fields.
Had it been a few years ago, Augusta's team would never have been so shabby.
But during the years she had devoted herself to study, Horn had poached most of her followers. The two remaining had only stayed because they were also members of the Augusta Family.
By now, however, Augusta no longer felt much about it.
After arriving on the Eloria Plane, she had likewise first gathered intelligence in secret, then successfully advanced to a Level 1 Wizard on the way to the camp.
Unlike Benjamin's team, Augusta had relied on her outstanding judgment and family background to swiftly adopt a far more efficient strategy from the moment she entered the Eloria Plane.
As the most talented eldest daughter of her generation in the Augusta Family, she had easily found a wizard from her own clan in the camp—her aunt, a veteran Level 3 Wizard stationed there.
Through that connection, she had swiftly established her own network of contacts and intelligence in that unfamiliar camp.
At that moment, Augusta's assigned mission was to eliminate a "Corrupted Swamp Fortress" located deep within the swamps.
This was one of the faith centers of a powerful evil god on the Eloria Plane. A powerful "Fallen Priest," a Level 2 Being, along with hundreds of swamp creatures and fanatics corrupted by the evil god's power, occupied the fortress.
In the past, these evil gods and