Chief Dross agreed to give Caef sixty of his men for the first phase of the plan.
It was a significant number, but not so large that it would leave Vrethka defenseless. Sixty experienced fighters, men who had grown up in the harsh borderlands and knew how to move through the wilderness without leaving a trace.
They were not soldiers in the formal sense, they didn't wear armors or follow a rigid chain of command, but they were warriors. They had fought before. They had killed before. And they were loyal to Dross.
Sure, they acted like they wanted vengeance. And they truly did want it.
The destruction of Gonnb had been brutal and the people of Vrethka had seen the survivors, had heard their stories, and kinda felt what had happened.
But that wouldn't make them dumb. They wouldn't just decide to boom, attack Percvale quickly. That was the kind of thinking that got people killed.
