[Evrard's POV]
After the preemptive force managed to destroy only two Nightbloom Spawners before being forced to retreat with Captain Zarrick gravely wounded, the mood inside the meeting chamber had grown grim.
Captain Zarrick's hand had already been treated with a healing spell. Unfortunately, there was nothing that could be done to reattach the severed hand.
The healers had attempted it several times, yet for some inexplicable reason, the flesh simply refused to mend together as it normally should, as though something lingering within the wound itself was actively preventing the healing magic from taking effect.
Still, despite being told to rest, Captain Zarrick still insisted on being present within the meeting chamber.
Anyway….
Seeing how disastrously the attack had failed, Lord Evrard had already ordered Commander Fajarn to deploy the reserve companies and city watch to begin evacuating the civilians toward the southern districts.
