Three Days Later—Corvina's Office
Corvina exhaled as she set down another stack of reports, her fingers massaging her temples as the weight of exhaustion settled in.
She had been working non-stop on Lucavion's request, pulling favors, contacting informants, and digging through war records that weren't meant to be easily accessed.
The War of Valerius Plains had been monumental—a decisive turning point for the Arcanis Empire, not just in strategy but in its military evolution. It was the war that had introduced the newly renovated mage units, shifting battlefield tactics in ways the world had never seen before.
A war that should have had countless records of the Awakened warriors who participated.
And yet—
Lucavion's request had proven to be both easier and more complicated than she had anticipated.
At first, she had assumed it would take months to filter through the vast records of knights who had fought in the war.
But as she dug deeper, she realized something odd.
