In theory, the Hell Soldier's Gate, with its tenfold time-distortion multiplier, should have granted Cain and his men only ten months of combat experience.
In reality, however, the figure was much higher.
Well, technically much higher.
A soldier might spend ten months at war, but how much of that time would actually be spent in direct combat? A few days? A few weeks?
Often, much less than that.
Wars spanned vast distances, demanding long marches, prolonged encampments, and sieges that could drag on for weeks or entire months without any real action.
Even a veteran with a decade of conflict under his belt would hardly have lived through ten full months of constant combat.
Cain and his one hundred and fifty men, however, were a case apart.
Of the ten months spent in the simulated world of the gate, eight had been of pure, uninterrupted combat.
