Although most of the soldiers in the City Lord's Household Guard and the City Guard were unhappy, most of them had originally been recently retired Common soldiers. They did not have the connections to find enough officers with extensive combat experience to establish an Army General Staff Department. Still, that was no problem. If they could not find them, someone else surely could! Whatever happened, they could lose in strength, but not in spirit!
The City Guard's former instructors had all been gryphon riders, but they now belonged to the navy, so asking them was out of the question. After choosing their share of the goods, the soldiers went to Quel'Danil City and gave the people from the Dire Wolf Squadron and Snow Leopard Squad a wildly embellished account of what had happened.
Then they said, "We'll establish an Army General Staff too. As long as you can go back and find more officers with extensive combat experience, we'll set it up right away. As for the security of Quel'Danil City, we'll bring back the City Guard troops currently in training to hold the city for now."
"If that doesn't work, your Dire Wolf Squadron and Snow Leopard Squad can select people to form the general staff. In any case, the navy has gotten far too much lately: ten galleons, two new aircraft carriers, and a huge increase in personnel."
"Now they've established a Garrison Force too, taking both village-defense squadrons and most of the gryphon riders who originally belonged to the army. Of those gryphon riders, only a handful are still stationed in Quel'Danil City."
"If we don't hold on to these hundred giant owl chicks now, we'll have to go begging to the navy for all our communications and intelligence in the future. They've got all those gryphon