A Monster and a True Monster (5)

By now, soldiers were apparently gathering in growing numbers near the holy land of the Quoram Faith, which was under the allied army's control.

According to the halfling scouts, their numbers had already surpassed two hundred thousand and were expected to ultimately exceed three hundred thousand.

Roughly sixty to seventy percent would be troops from the Mizuns Federation, with the rest dispatched from other human nations.

I can't help thinking it's an incredible number, but I also wonder whether that's all they can gather even from across the West.

Of course, this number should still be far short of the number that could truly be gathered from all across the West.

The human nations naturally needed forces to defend their own countries, and just as much of a problem as the troops themselves were the provisions needed to feed them.

The farther away a country was, the more provisions it would need to dispatch troops all the way to the Mizuns Federation.

Therefore, it was hard to imagine distant nations dutifully sending large armies, so this number was far short of the full strength of the humans in the West.

Even so, they had gathered several times the allied army's strength, so there was no doubt the battle would be fierce.

However, the representatives of the races in the allied army were devising their military strategy with victory in mind, and I too believed the allied army would win this battle...