"Look! This area belongs to the territory ruled by the Human-faced Spider clan. They are extremely aggressive and often mobilize in large numbers to hunt down reconnaissance sentinels from various camps!
Every ten days, due to the execution of fixed missions such as exploration and collection, White Poplar Barrier City loses more than twenty warriors.
This is a slow hemorrhaging, no different than using new recruits as consumables... I personally don't understand it, nor do I support it."
The Tai Monarch's gentle smile revealed understanding; such is war. In the macro scale of operation and gain-loss assessment, individual emotions and positions inevitably can't be accounted for.
"City Lord Yao, I highly respect your contributions to the New Star of Heng Province, as well as the sacrifices made by all Heng Province people for this grand expansion.
But war has no tender side; once this machine is activated, it either grinds the enemy to extinction or devours our own completely."
