Wizet 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 preparing there for quite some time. They tried to sacrifice an entire city in exchange for an attack from 'My Lord.'"
"Even after all this time, the Isaiah Society's methods are still so vicious!" Surprise showed in Helga Hufflepuff's eyes. "It's truly unbelievable!"
Although Wizet's description of the battle sounded almost casual, a closer consideration of his words made it possible to feel just how perilous that battle had been.
Based on what they knew of the Isaiah Society, if it had laid out such an operation, it would have been unimaginably difficult for the Guardians 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 for the sake of that victory.
After all, times had changed. The Isaiah Society the Guardians faced now was certainly different 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 grandeur.
That meant that, in certain respects, the Wizet before them had gone even further than founders like themselves...
Like Merlin in those days, Wizet had not only confronted Morgana le Fay's conspiracy head-on, but had also... miraculously returned victorious.
Merlin and Morgana's struggle had spanned half their lives. In most direct duels, victory had usually belonged to Merlin.
Yet in that crucial battle, Merlin had suffered the cruelest and most devastating defeat at Morgana le Fay's hands.
The consequences of that rout had been catastrophic. What Merlin regretted most bitterly was the fall of King