Legion20
I am starting to question their ability to plan a defense, if they knew an assault like this was coming I think they should have put a bit more effort in, put all the students and defenders in one spot, build a massive fucking fortress on top of a mountain and just rain hellfire and brimstone off the side for a week or two. they have been assaulted for years in a row and never thought to just go overkill on the defence? if they can bypass magical barriers then make fucking massive physical ones
Why everyone think that Protector will die? Yeah, he is poisoned, but itâs not like it canât be fixed - even good fake mage can deal with it. About defense plan: they couldnât create countermeasures because they didnât know. They could only use data from previous years to estimate probability of some events, but variations are too many, and they havenât enough manpower to cover all of them (if itâs even possible). Balkor is not a fool too, so he adapts and trying to predict their countermeasures - and more successfully for now. The chapter felt a bit short because most of the events are not about Lith and co, but at least itâs the beginning of Lith fight (also an option for Lith âto become Awakenedâ officially, but thatâs only my guess)