Chapter 983: Betrayal
The Saint Seanda Royal Family nominally had four generals stationed with Burning Dawn.
They were responsible for Burning Dawn's two camps, north and south.
However, a hundred years ago, when Saint Seanda VII ordered the attack on Golden City, the camp near the city's southern side had already fallen. Only the North Camp, on the side closer to Gravel Town, and eleven outposts remained.
Burning Dawn North Camp had a standing force of roughly three thousand.
Each outpost had between fifty and a hundred soldiers.
There was also a thousand-strong cavalry unit considered their trump card. Excluding supply troops and miscellaneous units, Burning Dawn had around five thousand soldiers in total.
Counting the supply troops and miscellaneous units brought that number to ten thousand.
But of those ten thousand, nearly two thousand had contracted the wolf plague.
Among them were quite a few junior and mid-ranking officers.
What concerned Qin Ran even more was that three of the four generals sent by the Saint Seanda Royal Family had contracted the wolf plague. They included the North Camp's deputy commander and the nominal commander and deputy commander of the South Camp.
"One general left out of four..."
Qin Ran narrowed his eyes in thought.
He was growing increasingly curious about the conditions for contracting the wolf plague.
Or rather, what the Broker's subordinate was trying to achieve.
According to Breifok, everyone who had contracted the wolf plague held a certain position or enjoyed considerable prestige within Burning Dawn.
Clearly, this was no natural epidemic.
It was the work of the Broker's subordinate.
Why are you doing this?
A main quest tied to your identity?
Or... some hidden event I don't know about?
Qin Ran considered the possibilities.
One thing, however, was perfectly clear to him.
He absolutely could