Murphy and Maxim, commander of his current territory's army, formulated the next deployment to wipe out the gnolls. He had previously secured the participation of the Blood Covenant Knight Order's reserve knights, but in his and Maxim's calculations, these forces were still far from enough to fight the gnolls head-on.
Therefore, they had no choice but to choose a surprise attack to deal with the warlord Porter.
At present, Scarlet Castle's high-end forces had already gathered, yet Murphy still needed some elite troops who could shoulder the main responsibilities in the upcoming sneak attack war.
The five hundred recruits from the first recruitment of the Cadman People's Army under Maxim's command were still training, and Murphy planned to give them another ten days to complete their formal preparation.
Besides these professional soldiers, however, another important and undeniable force served under his command.
Witch Hunters!
To be precise, the Adventurer Guild.
President Natalie, who had recently been busy selecting young talents to join the Adventurer Guild and building a new organizational framework, had already guessed the task they would shoulder next when she received Murphy's summon.
Therefore, upon seeing Murphy sauntering over to the camp along the ruin walls mended by the astral shadows, Natalie handed over a freshly compiled spreadsheet.
Murphy took it in his hand, glanced at it, and immediately raised an eyebrow.
"Six hundred people? So many? When we attacked the Tower of Rings previously, you could only dispatch five hundred people."
He said doubtfully:
"I know you want to show your sense of responsibility toward Transia so you can better integrate into this place your people already call the 'Holy Land'. But considering you only have a little over a thousand people in total right now, wouldn't such a large-scale corvée labor be a bit too excessive?