Second World

Chapter 1517 Chapter 1517. Using the Call to Arms Last

Jack chose one week out of thoughtful consideration for his new allies. Thelgrun had much to deal with after the destruction caused by this war. They also had to chase out the retreating Liguritudum army to make sure that the enemy truly left Palgrost.

Horatio had just come into power. He also needed time to secure his hold on the empire.

As for Verremor, he had contacted Four Winds. Four Winds confirmed the alliance. Thanks to Jackʼs tips about the kingdom toppling quests and the information gained from interrogating the captured Raretooth and Angryfeet tribes, they managed to root out the plans before it was carried out. Two tribes were banished due to that. The Angryfeet tribe and another tribe called Toughhead.

They were found to be colluding with the World Maker to disrupt and ultimately disband the current Council of Ten in Verremor. Uncovering that the World Maker had a hand in this also gave Grand Chief Kabaka and Four Winds the justifications to persuade the others into allying with Themisphere, who had been advocating Liguritudumʼs menace to all the countries in this world. The remaining six tribes within the council finally agreed to Kabaka and Four Winds.

As for the two empty seats on the council, Verremor would be hosting another election tourney. The tourney would be carried out within this week, so it could be settled before they came to Themisphere for the leadersʼ meeting.

Jack and John teleported back to Thereath to settle the arrangement of this meeting. Jeanny stayed behind and coordinated with the Themisphere army to chase out the retreating Liguritudum army from Palgrost.

On the way, John gave Jack a summary of the battle result.

Out of the 1,500,000 troops they brought to Palgrost, they lost one-third. The final all-out battle had taken quite a toll. They had also lost several ranked officers which Jack would have to replace using the monarch system. Jack sighed upon hearing the reports.

John told Jack that the enemy had it worse. He didnʼt have an exact number, but he estimated that the Liguritudum army retreated with a bit over one million troops. Rendezvousing with the troops they left behind to guard their supply line, the enemy retreated with around one and a half million troops.

The biggest loss the enemy suffered was their zombie army. The entire zombie army was completely eradicated. Master wouldnʼt be able to create another one any time soon without a major battle going on.

John said he would need to compile information on the army from their allied countries and gain as much intel as possible about the enemyʼs army. He would need all this before he could work out a strategy for their offensive campaign. An offensive campaign took many more resources than a defensive one. There was no do-over if they failed. Thatʼs why they would need to have the highest success chance before carrying them out. He would use this one week for the planning.

With John, Jack went to his throne and accepted all the alliance requests. Aside from Liguritudum, Aurebor, and Hydrurond, all other countries were now his allies. He also had embassies built in all those allied countries, so he could send messages fast.

He sent the formal invitation to have the country leaders come to Thereath one week from now. He also sent the message to Queen Aldryth in their temporary city, Alsvelg. He bet Aldryth would very much like to be a part of the offensive push.

Today was also the day when Jack received his monthly ruling powers. He received 140 ruling powers from his sovereign level 14. He also collected 25 ruling powers from the Boundless Cache. He had 208 ruling powers to spend.

He left the Call to Arms and Mass Drill for the last. He did manual drafts and training on each settlement first. With three countries in allied status, the World Commerce Center gave him an extra 300,000 gold coins every month. The trade routes and economy in every settlement also flourished due to that Wonder Building. This allowed Jack to continue the heavy expenditure on all that drafting and training.

There was no new Wonder Building to build, so he left the building arrangement to John. He did ask if John had anything to use his ruling powers on. John pointed him to several buildings and research to hasten. Jack spent 36 ruling powers on all those things.