Accompanied by a flicker of arcane sparks, Kamel turned around and quietly observed the near thousand seats in the hall, and the nine hundred seventy-two former colleagues who had already fallen into a long slumber upon them.
"A thousand years... A thousand years ago, I was one of the chief researchers of the Empire's Royal Mage Corps. A secret order personally issued by the Emperor transferred me from the imperial capital to this fortress located on the northern border. When I first saw it, I was as surprised as you are now.
