Atrox studied the progress of his army as he flew above them, and he was glad they were making good progress. Since he knew almost next to nothing about how an army of that size worked, he'd left everything to Lieutenant Patel.
"...Right now, my job is to point where I want things, and they move that way... This is power... No wonder people are always reaching for it..."
The thing was that the army was too thin to protect the whole of the South. That was why he was moving them closer to Nadia's town and Rikon. Those were the places with the highest concentration of villages and towns.
As the army moved, they displaced villages and turned them into outposts—small units that would be able to combine with other units for fast-striking attacks.
"It looks as if that's going to be expensive," Slya said from her place in the tower. She was pointing to where a unit was setting down enchanted tools for shields and beam rods.
