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It was worrisome news, to be sure, but Hector still had a fair amount of confidence in the Sandlords--and the Sunsmith, Abbas Saqqaf, in particular. He'd been the only person to actually witness that man take down the Salesmen of Death, so perhaps it was only natural for no one else to share his opinion on this.

Hector didn't bother trying to convince anyone else. He was still new to this whole "superhuman war" business, so he figured it wasn't really his place to be tossing his inexperienced opinions around, no matter how strongly he felt about that.

However, just because he wasn't worried about Sair being conquered by Abolish didn't mean that he wasn't concerned about the situation there at all. According to their team's reports, the intensity of the fighting there was causing the Vanguard to send more and more resources there, which meant that once this conflict was over, they would probably have an even greater foothold in the region than before.

Assuming Abolish didn't win, that was.

Needless to say, that notion was also troubling the Rainlords immensely. Thanks to this war, their hope of reclaiming their land was beginning to look further away than ever.

And of course, the news from Vantalay hadn't helped anyone's nerves, either.

Two of the Blackburn Triplets captured. What a rotten development.

After hearing about that, there was no way in hell that Hector could have possibly prevented Melchor Blackburn from departing immediately. He abandoned that notion entirely.

But he hadn't allowed Melchor to go alone.

Leo had indeed gone with him, as well as Evangelina Stroud and Diego Redwater.

Hector had been worried about that conversation with Leo, but when Hector explained the situation to him, Leo had agreed almost immediately. It seemed that Ericoros hadn't been exaggerating when he talked about how much the town of Miro meant to both of them.