Chapter 69: First conquest.
"It is a glorious day for the children of the God, for Lunax has spoken! You, the next generation of our Lord's glorious warriors, have been chosen to join your predecessors for the next conquest! The God has seen your efforts, and is granting you this incredible chance to prove yourselves!"
A person hidden behind a dark purple, almost black, hooded cloak was preaching in front of over thousand kneeling children. Apparently his name was Coulax and he, along with two others, arrived right after lunch and the whole place turned into complete mess.
Surprisingly it was mostly caused by the agitated instructors who rushed to gather their students in front of the Lunax's statue.
The only thing the younger generation managed to learn was that the messengers of the God had arrived and, according to what Lee knew, these guys had almost unlimited authority in the lands of the scourge.
The many months spent on military drills payed off and within twenty breaths of time the square in front of the statue was full of kneeling kids. Their instructors proudly stood beside their groups, fully focused on the three higher-ups.
Lee had spent over six months in the fortress, and it was the first time something like this happened, but he doubted these were good news.
From what he was taught, the so called conquests were the raids performed by scourge in the other worlds and the God usually organized them once a month, sometimes once in two months. They were divided in three types – recruitment, gathering and special.
The recruitment conquests were targeted, as the name implied, to kidnap hundreds upon hundreds of people, mostly children, alongside plundering provisions of the natives. Sadly these were the most prestigious ones where the scourge vanguard had to shine.
The Sunwell's raid was such, although Lee had no clue where all the children were brought to afterwards.
The gathering conquests were organized to hunt beasts en masse and particularly – their sparks. These were the most lucrative ones where almost all the scourge could take part. Since these didn't concern the vanguard warriors, there was not much information about them, but it was said that depending on the performance one could even receive a Divine Gift directly from Lunax's hands.
Lee had no idea what the special conquests were, but the current situation did look such, whatever it meant. But no matter what, he had a bad feeling about it.