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Barton wandered aimlessly, surveying the dilapidated town with growing irritation.
He had left the Highland more than ten days ago and passed through dozens of principalities, large and small.
People with the aptitude to become Wizards were exceedingly rare—not even one in a hundred thousand.
Still, by casting his net so wide, he had found a dozen or so children with Wizard aptitude.
But that was all they had. He had yet to find a single child with even moderately good aptitude, leaving him with practically nothing to show for his efforts.
And after running into Mond just now and enduring a barrage of mockery, he felt worse than ever.
"Damn that Cross-Realm crosser! Why did it have to cross over at that exact time and place?"
Barton sighed. Thinking of his companions who had died horribly or vanished without a trace, he felt a pang of grief.
He belonged to a mid-sized power in the Highland called the Wizard Academy. Its Wizards generally addressed one another as teachers and students. Though it was hardly famous across the Highland, it had earned some standing in the surrounding area.
In recent years, under the leadership of several powerful Wizards, the Wizard Academy had gone from strength to strength. It had even shown signs of becoming the dominant power in the region.
But what rose too high was bound to fall. A devastating blow some time