Friends were ordered to kill enemies from the other territory on sight, even if those enemies were people they had been through life-and-death with, and even if they were family members they had been looking for.
No one could sleep after hearing this story, and the investigators from the intelligence team had red eyes. It was unknown whether they were red from anger, or from crying, or both.
Many of their guards and some of those in the intelligence team had once been part of Calma Village, too. One could only imagine how heavy they were feeling after listening all this.
This happened only a few weeks ago. This could mean that Gocki had gotten more powerful after integrating two new territories and getting more elementalists and fighter slaves.
However, according to their intelligence, it was not exactly so.
For one, most of the people were still recovering from injury. Further, slaves were generally not given medical aid and left to handle their wounds on their own.
The higher the level, the better one’s recovery rate was. This was the same rule with elementalists, who had even better recovery rates than people with higher levels than them.
Therefore, even if they had more slaves, the overall firepower of the territory that could be readily mobilized did not necessarily follow.
Gocki also lost a lot of money hiring the mercenaries. Further, a lot of the post-payments to the mercenaries had to be in the form of elementalist slaves, hundreds of them.
Overall, the enemies who attacked them back then were all suffering at this time.
If they hadn’t heard of the Terran lives that had been lost, knowing that their enemies were going against each other like that would’ve made the former Calma people quite happy.
Speaking of the Calma Villagers, they were among the people going through the array this time.
They arrived at Alterra as refugees, and because Alterra was already fairly saturated, a lot of them had actually settled down in the Iron Mountains, which had a lot of migration benefits to encourage Terrans to move there.
After all, comparing both satellites, Iron Mountains was less attractive because it was so far away, it was surrounded by aborigine villages, and the majority of the population were aborigines.
The infrastructure had also been improved after being taken over, but most of the essentials had already been laid out even before they came to this world, so it was really far inferior to Limestone Valley, let alone Alterra.
Other than them, those who settled in Alterra also went with the caravans to head to this place, just in time to get some rest before the war.
Now, they all stood in front of where the array was estimated to appear within the next few minutes, since the village only had one gate. There were more than ten thousand of them this time, which was a good amount for a village war.
This was led by several level 15s, mostly hired from the Town Center at Alterra. Overall, the current forces Iron Mountains were sending was definitely beyond what the enemy could’ve imagined.
After all, the Class E mercenary teams, averaging in levels 13 to 15, would generally only send out a few dozen people for hundreds of gold. Most villages could only hire a batch or two, and that’d drain a good part of their treasury.

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