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The next day
The situation in Silkland City slowly became more favourable. Right when morning came, thousands of Valcke troops who were prisoners of war began to do their job, repairing the building conditions.
The large number of Valcke troops required Edgar to alert as many troops as the number of prisoners. They were scattered to various places in the city with pre-determined tasks.
Edgar and Laura were still inside the city, unlike Tobias, who was already outside the Silkland area, more precisely outside the south gate.
He stood watching the city of Fairspire from a distance, accompanied by two soldiers on either side of him. Until now, Tobias hadn't seen any attack on the city, as planned earlier.
"What exactly are you looking at, Lord Tobias?" asked one of the soldiers, tired of waiting for Tobias since sunrise.
"Can you go there and do some spying for me?" asked Tobias.
"I-I can't. It's not my thing," said the soldie
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