Mages who thought about it more and more and felt that Khelben surviving until now was simply a miracle looked at each other with tacit understanding, completely abandoning the idea of going to Waterdeep... But, a portion of their allies in Waterdeep were still waiting for their news!
Yaro from Silver Moon City and Rivel from Shadowdale exchanged blatant, lingering glances for a moment, neither willing to be the diligent bearer of bad news.
In the end, Yaro still nodded silently: no help for it, he was still a member of the Harpers and naturally had the duty to report news.
The helpless male mage sighed. Speaking of which, the bard faction of the Harpers were the strongest intelligence personnel in their organization, and rangers were the carrier pigeons for passing messages.
But... because of certain matters, very few rangers in the Harpers were willing to take on tasks in Waterdeep... For the ranger profession, even if they themselves didn't have an elf teacher, their teacher certainly had one!
Originally, most Harpers held deep opinions against Khelben because he had backstabbed the Harper organization in order to build his own intelligence organization, the Moonstars, and then this kind of matter happened... Arranging people to go make trouble in Waterdeep was easy enough for the Harpers.
Getting them to help or carry a message, however, was exceptionally strenuous.
The bards weren't much better off. If Mystra hadn't suffered an accident, Milil might have already taken his own worshippers and left the Harpers Alliance... That would have meant at least well over half of them walking out!
Although Milil didn't intend to kick them while they were down, his dissatisfaction with Silver Moon City was still quite obvious.
From the growing number of Good Alignment bards appearing in Aglaia, one could tell