More than the questions weighing on his mind, Shalong Li Nuer, commander of the Greedy Wolf Legion, worried about how the coming battles would unfold.
Given the overwhelming combat strength the Lampari Kingdom's Northern Garrison had displayed, Shalong Li Nuer had no confidence that the Greedy Wolf Legion could withstand their fierce assault if they continued pressing their advantage.
Even with support from the Fierce Tiger Legion, it would probably be a struggle.
Fortunately, after the Lampari Kingdom's Northern Garrison regained control of the entire Murto Mountain Ranges and forced both the Greedy Wolf Legion and the Fierce Tiger Legion to retreat and rebuild their defenses ten kilometers away, the Northern Garrison suddenly slowed its offensive. Rather than continuing into the Sark Kingdom's territory north of the Murto Mountain Ranges, it began rebuilding its positions in the mountains, adopting a firmly defensive stance.
According to the legion's chief of staff, Aiwei Ruoang, the Lampari Kingdom's Northern Garrison was probably afraid of advancing too far into the Sark Kingdom, where it could become isolated and be wiped out by the superior forces the Sark Kingdom could muster. That was why it had chosen to consolidate its position first.
Another possibility was that the Lampari Kingdom's earlier ferocious offensive had actually been an all-out, desperate counterattack against the Sark Kingdom's previous actions.
Considering the Lampari Kingdom's resources, suddenly producing so much armor and weaponry for the Northern Garrison, supplying arrows in such quantities that they were fired as though they cost nothing, and adding those three stone throwers whose extraordinary power defied everything Shalong Li Nuer and Aiwei Ruoang knew must have required mobilizing almost all the kingdom's resources.
Such staggering expenditure might be sustainable for one or two battles, but if it continued for long, even the relatively powerful Sark Kingdom