All Combat Power; Rimuru's Caution

But because their numbers were too small, Rimuru had not mentioned them much.

Then there was the dragon-lizard army, which obeyed only Azhdaha's orders. It numbered around ten thousand.

And the three thousand Thousand Rock Army under Ari's command.

Added together, that was only around fifteen thousand!

The entire Demon Country Federation army did not even amount to eighty thousand!

Yet the Empire had a full million troops!!!

Eighty thousand versus a million! The advantage was not on our side!

How were they supposed to fight this?!

At that thought, Rimuru's little head began to buzz.

Eighty thousand against a million—not even one-tenth of their numbers! They were definitely going to lose!

In Rimuru's memories, armies won through numbers.

No matter how strong an army was, take the Demon Country Federation's strongest Black Legion for example! It had fewer than a thousand members.

The Black Legion was indeed full of experts capable of taking on a hundred enemies alone, but they could not fight a thousand or ten thousand by themselves!

After all, Rimuru understood the saying that enough ants could bite an elephant to death.

Not to mention that even if the Black Legion were allowed to slaughter the enemy's million troops as they stood there, it would still take days and nights!

So elites alone would not be enough.

So... it was time to deploy the "surprise troops"!

That was, the Demon Country Federation's left wing—the forces that did not belong to the Demon Country Federation itself.

Its composition was vastly different from that of the right wing.

The left wing consisted, first, of the Western Expeditionary Force!

It was an army organized by the Western nations. In truth, it was a force funded by Rimuru and the Demon Country Federation to maintain order and supervise repairs. Since