Chapter 654: Battle Merits and Border Patrolman
Blood-Cast Fortress served as a crucial stronghold on the northeastern border of the Servia Kingdom, holding a position of considerable importance as the starting and ending point for many epic campaigns throughout the kingdom's history.
Even though relations with neighboring countries had somewhat mellowed nowadays, it still shouldered the responsibilities of a frontier stronghold, maintaining a substantial garrison force stationed there year-round.
Right now, faced with the increasingly frequent monsters in the surrounding area, and with the soldiers and officers originally stationed within the fortress suffering heavy casualties while the kingdom was unwilling to provide troop reinforcements, the Blood-Cast Fortress authorities had no choice but to cast aside tradition and issue a conscription decree to the adventurers and civilians willing to enlist throughout Anluan Province.
Well-informed professional adventurers of considerable strength, such as the ranger Tal and the Sulfur Dragon Breath squad, had already caught wind of the intelligence through their respective channels much earlier, rushing to the kingdom's border from all directions.
Yet now, those adventurers whose information channels were noticeably sluggish and whose strength was relatively mediocre, alongside ordinary civilians from the surrounding regions, had finally followed various conscription squads to Blood-Cast Fortress.
This was precisely the reason Xia Nan had seen so many newcomers on the road here.
"Of course, it isn't just because of that."
Reaching this point, the young officer before him suddenly lowered his voice, furtively glancing to both sides. Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he leaned in closer, covered his mouth with his hand, and whispered, "I don't know if you've noticed, but the frequency of monsters appearing near Blood-Cast Fortress these past few days has been much higher than before."
"I heard a few officers in the Inner Fortress chatting and