Chapter 64

The next day we did not start packing up the tents until almost noon. Nocturne had kept her word and let the knights and demonesses sleep in after the late-night celebration the night before. Once everyone was awake. Nocturne and I used our magic to put the tents up, clean up the campfires, and load everything into the carriages and onto the horses.

 “Well, that is everything. Time to head back.” I said to her.

 “Can we summon a portal, so the knights do not have to travel a whole day to the empire?” Nocturne asked me. I thought about it for a moment. I looked at the crowd of knights and demonesses, then all the items we would need to bring through a portal.

 “I do not have much experience with portal magic, so I would not be able to hold a portal open long enough, or even make one big enough for all of us to pass through.” I told her. Nocturne looked dejected until I continued. “There are mages at the magic tower who are capable of such feats of magi