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What do you mean? Isn't this
...a normal explanation?
No, because
It doesn't explain anything, because it would mean that the first Mages were going to kill Ment and recruit him at the same time. Don't you think that's absurd? Neither of those actions can be redirected.
And the recruitment of Ment is explicitly mentioned. Otherwise, what was the point of all those appeals to Jen Li to bring him into the order in the newspaper?

