Raven did not simply wait around for the enchanted equipment to arrive.
Over the next two days, more orders were issued one after another—repair Eagle Fortress, make simple stretchers, prepare medicinal herbs...
The most important order was to recruit a group of soldiers from among the transferred subjects.
The order was carried out without the slightest resistance.
After more than a month of rest, aside from the very few serfs who had died from infected wounds and other causes, most of them had more or less recovered physically.
For the original residents of Eagle Town, there were far fewer people competing with them for work.
For the newly transferred subjects, serving as Raven's soldiers paid far more than working at the construction site. It also saved their families a ration of food, which was naturally another good thing, so applications came in enthusiastically.
The transferred subjects were mainly young men and women. Even without lowering the standards, more than seventy were soon recruited—a force of serf soldiers the size of six squads.
The Personal Guards recently withdrawn from Shining Gold Town had barely rested before throwing themselves into training these serf soldiers.
It was not that Raven wanted to use these people as cannon fodder. In reality, untrained serfs did not even qualify as cannon fodder in front of the vicious bandits.
To launch a counterattack against the Bloody Highlands, even with warhorses for transport, the journey alone would likely take more than ten days there and back. During that time, Eagle Fortress could not be left without guards.
Although Raven did not need to handle most of the recruitment personally, he could not remain idle either. He gave the serf soldiers speeches, fired them up, and personally distributed a month of advance pay.
The method was old-fashioned. Raven himself