On why Baruch and the rest were on the ramparts while the rest marched to the gate, it was the instruction they'd been given, especially the new path mages who were inexperienced.
Lys wasn't a part of either, but because she'd been with Baruch, he knew where she was, inside the wall.
Hadrian had his suspicions concerning that.
Watching as the regiment of mages converged, Hadrian waited for his opportunity.
He'd used the Sunmar force to get him this far, but he had a few hours until his fog shroud disappeared, and most importantly, he did not wish to participate in the battle.
The cores would be good to obtain, but whilst the powerful mages like Jasmine and Egoz were focused on the imminent fight and battle, he could go for the witch, the unique path mages and Haldon.
A hundred and thirty metres to the east, where the farmlands were not destroyed by the moving horizontal earth carpets of the elemental mages, rodent Hadrian's moved about in the tall crops.
