Zed is in the Wizard Keep and one of the alarm bells rung. Cautiously he makes his way to the site of the ring, they hears another in a different location. Unable to think of how they made it past the magical defenses he rushes to the second location only to run into a ungifted man. Zed realizes that he is ungifted after his lightning does not touch the man, and uses he magic on the surrounding to kill him, but then is seized by two men from behind, and knocked out. Zed later wakes up with Adie next to him, and a Sister of the Dark commanding the ungifted. The ungifted seem to not want to follow the orders, and are timid and sad which confuses Zed. Jangang now has the Wizard's Keep.
Then we get to see how the defenses of D'Hara are going along under the direction of Verna. They learn from Rikka that the Imperial Order army will be attacking soon. Although their defense are ready, they do not know if it can withhold the numbers they face. The siege on D'Hara is about to begin.
Zed's encounter helps strengthen my belief that the group of ungifted people that went missing are Owen's people, and that the Imperial Order is forcing their strongest for fight for its cause when they hate fighting. These chapters move the spotlight away from Richard's problems with the magic he is facing and the rebellion in the south to the problems Zed and D'Hara are about to face. Normally things seem most dismal before they improve, and I have no doubt that they will be able to escape the problems they face.
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