Every demon lord in the Abyss knew that Solam had no shortage of demons under his command, but no one had ever had a clear understanding of his forces. Solam had always been at war, and he had been fighting in some backwater like the Great Abyss. Demons rarely paid attention to that godforsaken place. They only knew the fighting there was fierce, but nobody cared.
When Solam had led expeditions in the past, he had only brought a few small units, at most one or two hundred thousand troops. That number was truly nothing worth mentioning in the Abyss.
So when Horus brought out all of Solam's assets this time, the four demon lords were utterly stunned.
None of them were especially famous demon lords. They each had barely over a million troops under their command, and with forces needed to guard their home territories, the four of them had brought only a little over a million soldiers combined. They had never expected Solam to have so many men.
Of course, Solam himself had never expected to have so many troops under his command either. During Solam's era, he had only been somewhat familiar with the legions led by his sons. He had barely concerned himself with the other demon legions, leaving them entirely to his demon generals. He had never even asked how many troops they had.
His administration had been exceedingly rough.
When Horus took power, he found this situation utterly intolerable. He thought it was far too crude. What kind of boss did not even know how many subordinates he had?
After Horus reorganized the forces and adjusted Solam's previous strategy, placing greater emphasis on casualties and accepting surrendering troops, the size of Solam's army began to swell like a balloon, eventually reaching the grand scale