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Case Files Vol 2
“Just from reading the records, I could tell my brother was destined to die. Sure, he was a prodigious magus in his own right, but his specialization was not in combat. In contrast, many of the others gathered for the ritual were beyond the level of being even professional killers. It was like he was trying to divert the flow of a river by throwing a rock into it. Sure, it was a fairly large rock, but it wasn’t a job for a rock in the first place."
"That was my theory, at least. If he had realized the situation he was in and fled home as fast as possible, then he could have had a long, productive life. But knowing his personality, that option was never on the table. Once he had elected to participate, he wouldn’t listen to any warnings from me. His death was really the only possible ending.”