Building a Teleportation Portal required a wide range of Magic Materials. Most crucially, it required an Epic Mage or a Mage Corps.
Spencer led the City Guard north in pursuit, but found nothing.
It seemed they could no longer keep the news from Starer City under wraps.
Spencer returned with the bad news and found Francois gone again. Everyone else was still there, so he wasn't worried Francois had run away. What worried him was that the Kingdom could attack at any moment...
Francois wasn't gone long this time. As soon as he returned, he got back to work, requisitioning empty houses as Warehouses, conscripting the nobles' private soldiers, and distributing supplies taken from the wealthy to civilians.
Starer City's transition from the Rikaner Kingdom to Free City went remarkably smoothly—until a Knights' Order appeared outside the city.
The Green Luo Knights' Order was stationed not far from Starer City. By now, they were due to arrive.
Francois had mixed feelings. War was inevitably coming, but he also knew this Green Luo Knights' Order.
When the Ratfolk had invaded from the Southlands and rampaged all the way to Breeze City, the Green Luo Knights' Order had kept up a guerrilla campaign against them...
Francois glanced at the falcon circling in the lead-gray sky, then looked away and had Spencer take a few men to open the requisitioned Warehouses.
"They're here," Francois said.
Femi and a host of Hellfire warriors emerged from the darkness before Spencer's astonished eyes.
"I see."
"It's the Green Luo Knights' Order. If possible, I'd like to warn them first..."
"I know."
Francois and Spencer stepped aside, letting the Hellfire Legion march out of the Warehouses in formation.
Spencer could hardly take his eyes off them. When Francois teased him, he retorted without a hint of embarrassment,