After leaving, Ren Jingchen was still somewhat disappointed. Whether it was Huo Ling's Plains City, the three half-orc provinces, or Red Dog City—
All of them had quite a few troops, but these were all forces that could be sold off at any time.
Although they were currently under the Security Department's jurisdiction, once the auction began, perhaps more than half of them would be sold.
Especially the combat divisions made up of modified goblin soldiers. Their fate had been decided from the very beginning—the reason they had been reorganized was to be sold.
So far, the only relatively stable forces under Ren Jingchen's Security Department were a fully organized public security division in Plains City, composed of humans and loyal foreign-race retainers.
There was also a kobold combat division in Red Dog City, most of whom were Huo Ling's followers.
Other than those two units, there was probably only this newly formed half-orc combat division.
Aside from these three combat divisions, all other troops could be sold at any moment.
It pained Ren Jingchen, who had painstakingly trained and reorganized them, but there was no helping it. Huo Ling could not maintain too many living troops.
He had so many undead soldiers under his command that there was nearly nowhere to put them. Several million skeletal troops could directly steamroll the Half-Orc Empire—except while doing so, Huo Ling could easily be beheaded.
Huo Ling's current plan for the Security Department was to focus on cultivating officers. As for soldiers, he could raise them up in a very short time, so there was no need to worry about that at all.
The horns of war sounded once more, and unit after unit began advancing toward the fortress at the entrance to the underground world.
Training troops through long-distance marches was