To call the assembly a grand affair was a disservice, for it would be treating the assembly too lightly. There were at least one hundred Mystics all around them, not only acting as guards for the assembly, but displaying the full force of the academy. There were nearly as many staff members as there were cadets, showing the immense work that went into running the Kolar Military Academy.
With the presence of Isabella, that made hundreds of Mystics and one Ascendant, making the fighting force of the academy equal some of the major battalions of competing nations. To think that such a force was completely dedicated to training and nurturing cadets all around the year without having any other military duty was a sheer testament to the immense military might of Kolar.
