The group eventually reached the outskirts of the Alterran region, and the group had to be divided up to head to the respective territories. They stopped just before they entered the Town's scope of influence, with the 'recruiters' doing their best to get as many as they could.
Fortunately, the fee paid to Alterra was just an additional 4 gold, fixed, regardless of how much the 'slave' was bought. After all, if it were in percentage, then some people would become way too expensive.
Alterra was not stingy, at least. After securing a certain amount of new talent, they didn't really care where the rest would go as long as they headed to an associate territory.
In the end, each ally and subsidiary managed to get several hundred new elementalists, which made them all very happy.
If they had more money, they'd have bought even more! Sadly, their territories had a lot of expenditures and could only budget so much for new manpower.
