Early the next morning, following Shikele's orders from the previous night, the commanders of the various Barbarian units in the camp once again gathered in his tent, preparing to attend the war council.
At the same time, the reinforcements led by Kuba began arriving at the Barbarian camp one after another. To coordinate the camp, Shikele had no choice but to suspend the war council and order each unit to give up part of its barracks to the newly arrived reinforcements as a gesture of goodwill.
Although no one fully understood it, the reasoning made sense. The reinforcements were exhausted from their journey and needed rest; having ready-made barracks would indeed help them recover more quickly.
However, the units required to surrender the most barracks were precisely the eight Thousand-man squads directly under the Great Chieftain that had gone off on their own some time ago. Shikele's reasoning was simple: all units had suffered casualties recently, leaving many barracks vacant. These eight Thousand-man squads had suffered the greatest losses, so it was only proper for them to give up more barracks.
Though the eight Legion Commanders were reluctant, they ultimately agreed. After all, the reinforcements sent this time were also directly under the Great Chieftain, and comrades-in-arms should help one another.
But it so happened that all eight Legion Commanders had left their own units at this time, so the task of exchanging the camps could only be handed over to their subordinates. Before long, half the men who had originally been waiting outside the tent departed.
During this time, Shikele had never mentioned punishing those Legion Commanders, so most people assumed the matter had passed.
Among the eight, however, there was a particularly cautious Legion Commander named Iron Stone. Every time he attended the war council, he brought a