My mind was in chaos when we exited the garden. After I got into the car, I drove toward the base as quickly as I could.

The recruitment wasn’t the problem. People tried to recruit excellent players from other guilds every day. The problem was that Moonlight Stone was one of the vertebrae that made up the backbone of the guild and our best mage, and from the sounds of it, she actually chose to accept the offer and leave us. It was a threat to the guild like we had never seen before.

The Mage class as a whole was growing more and more important each day as the game progressed, and super mages such as Luo River God of the Capital or Stranger of Three Lifetimes were practically jewels in the crown. If possible, every guild wanted a powerful mage to carry their banner. It was critical to the growth and development of the guild.

In a war of sword and magic, cavalry charges were undoubtedly the most threatening assault an army could face. However, standing on the opposite side of that paradigm was positional warfare. In positional warfare, two classes reigned supreme over all the other classes: archers and mages. Archers dealt physical damage, so they could only do so much against...