To Dean Godsthorn, this new update was barely an inconvenience.
He could walk out to meet it himself, and the horde would cease to exist within minutes, and he would not need to draw on anything close to his full capability to manage it.
The barriers that protected the academy grounds—ancient, layered, maintained continuously since the institution's founding—did not need to be raised for something at this scale.
They existed for contingencies far beyond what a demon horde such as this one represented. Like what had happened months ago although they hadn't managed to use it even then.
He could end this without effort.
He considered that option for exactly as long as it took to dismiss it, because dismissing it was the correct response and had been the correct response for every similar report that had come through this door over the years.
What ElderGlow's students needed was not protection from a threat at this scale.
They needed experience with it.
Godsthorn stood.
