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The night was deep and still. Hazy darkness shrouded the land, a cool breeze stirred, and the cold moon hung like a hook.
A figure dropped from Southshore's wall and swiftly vanished into the boundless darkness. Standing atop the wall, Rex watched the Gnoll disappear, his eyes grave.
"Can the plan really work?" Rona asked anxiously. She stood beside Rex, traces of worry showing on her youthful face.
"A fifty-percent chance is enough to make it worth a try." Rex drew his gaze back from beyond the wall, glanced at Rona, and spoke calmly.
"I still don't think we can persuade the Gnolls to surrender on the eve of battle." Rona shook her head, tossing her long hair, her youthful face plainly showing how impossible she thought it was.
Persuading the Gnolls to surrender while their army was bearing down on them made an already slim hope even slimmer. Rona simply did not believe it could work, though she still had great respect for Rex. As a member of the Knights of the Round Table, she had spent plenty of time around him over the past two years. Rex, once merely a figure from stories, had appeared before her in the flesh. Before meeting him, she had known him only as the genius of Gilneas.
But after truly getting to know Rex, Rona discovered that the world's opinion of him still fell short. He was not merely a genius, but a genius among geniuses.
Who had the Knights of the Round Table recruited? Ordinary commoners, every one of them. Even the money needed to establish the order had barely been scraped together, and it had once been dismissed as a plaything. Yet over those