After a brief silence, Karix asked, "What level do you need the Ilia Kingdom to reach?"
"Over the next hundred years, I'll carry out several large-scale operations. Whenever I'm short of troops, I'll invite the Ilia Kingdom to send reinforcements."
"In other words, by the end of those hundred years, the Ilia Kingdom must have at least three hundred thousand troops ready for me to call upon at any time, and all of them must be Silver Rank Transcendents."
Under the Ilia Kingdom's military structure, a regular Marine Legion had over sixty thousand troops, with Silver Rank Transcendents making up roughly ten percent. In an Elite Legion, that proportion could reach thirty percent; in a Knight Legion, forty percent; and in a Mage Legion, twenty percent.
The Ilia Kingdom had fifty-two Standing Army legions: forty Marine Legions, only ten of which qualified as elite, ten Knight Legions, and five Mage Legions.
While maintaining the kingdom's basic stability and ensuring that all Silver Rank Transcendents selected were under thirty-five, they could draw one hundred and fifty thousand Silver Rank Transcendents from the kingdom's Standing Army.
Of the remaining one hundred and fifty thousand, they could recruit some from the Royal Direct Territory, some from academies across the kingdom, and another group from the Royal Descendants, totaling around fifty thousand.
For the final hundred thousand, they could recruit eighty thousand from the nobility and transfer twenty thousand from the Overseas Duchies.
That would give them the full three hundred thousand.
It was regrettable, really. The Ilia Kingdom had stood for thousands of years and had a population of over three hundred and sixty million. Of those, one hundred and thirty million lived in the Royal Direct Territory, roughly one hundred and ten million in the seven ducal territories, and only one hundred