Devaguea had Korima and Anke only get the scroll of permanency for telepathic bond. They could get his arcane sight later, and Allison pointed out that see invisibility was only able to be made permanent if the caster was using it on themself. She then sweetly asked Sak'bas if she had been training her ability to use magic items. Devaguea quickly walked back, deferring to Allison's expertise, as she was the technical caster and he had no issues admitting it. It did make the women smug for a couple days, but he could admit when he was wrong.<br/><br/>The dragon duke welcomed both hired groups in person, personally sitting in on the command briefing for both groups at the same time. He did introduce both groups to each other, but more so they would know the other was in the area, not because they would be working together. The swordlords were mostly expected to assist law enforcement, and assist in patrols, but if there was a serious problem, they would be the reserves at most.<br/><br/>The Razmirans received a formal thanks for their offer, but they had managed to fill the need for external forces already. If the nation needed more, he would definitely keep them in mind.<br/><br/>The small return of the investigative group was enough for him to change his build plans, now trying to turn the northwest into a bastion. Each city was being converted into a fortress, with enough supplies to last for three months minimum. Amusingly, the supplies were already in place, the granary in each city already filled to full. For the first time since the birth of the nation, Devaguea sent a formal order of preparation to each town in the northwest, ordering troop and militia training to step up, and for each city to begin reviewing plans for holding out against an attacking force. He did include that this was a preemptive preparatory move, as they hadn't confirmed that the army was coming this way, but the raids had been getting bolder and larger, before suddenly stopping completely a few months back.