34 Transitioned (1/2)

I spent the next few days recovering from my injuries, the process was sped up immensely by Lili's recovery spells. When I was finally well enough, Rett announced to the entire camp that I was to be the new chieftain, his announcement was met with expected suspicion and caution.

I don't blame them of course, I never wanted to become the chief, but it's something we're all going to have to get used to I guess. After that announcement, he explained our new plans to everyone.

When I was recovering is when Rett and I discussed everything in detail, there were quite a few things that I brought up during those conversations. Most importantly I feared for the other members of the Moon Claws clan that were still on the demon continent.

I asked what would happen to all the Moon Claws living on the demon continent, he then enlightened me to the current state of demonic affairs.

The demons are reliant on the other tribes under its banner to supply them with the majority of their troops and supplies, after so many years of waging war with humans, they began to lose their influence over the other races.

The Moon Claws, on the other hand, has strong relations with all beastmen tribes and was the prominent wolf-man faction. That put the demons in a very peculiar position, having to juggle their losing war with humans as well as having to please the various factions supporting them. Effectively diminishing any chance of them directly attacking the Moon Claws clan on the demon continent.

If they were to attack the clan on the demon continent for defecting, then they would make an enemy of all the other beastmen tribes.

I would love it if they tried, then they would have to fight two wars, then we could probably drive them off the human continent, well if humans weren't in the midst of a coup and possible civil war.

But I doubt that's what they'll do, the demons will most likely capitalize on the chaos caused by the instruction in the Paladin Order. So I focused on the force we have right now, there were now a considerable amount of troops under my command, the Moon Claws had more troops before but Rett gruffly explained that most of them were used as firebolt fodder during the war.

Before I was born, the Moon Claws had started to become a surmountable force among the Demon armies factions. The demons started to fear that they could become strong enough to overthrow them, so they started whittling down their numbers by sending them to fight impossible battles alone.

They were strong enough to win every time, but they suffered many casualties. The clan's forces today are but a shadow of what they once were. After answering any of the questions I had he told me our current troops count.

Right now the main fighting force consists of 500 Moon Claw wolf-men, 300 other beastmen of varying species, and about 200 demon soldiers.

Many of the demon soldiers deserted after the announcement, but the ones that had no family or any real ties to the demon army stayed for various reasons. So we were left with roughly 850 soldiers, it was further broken down by specialties.

There were 300 light infantry, 100 heavy infantry, 100 ranged infantry, 50 beast Riders (Their version of calvary), 50 recon troops, and the remainder occuied different logistical or support positions.

As for the other Moon Claws soldiers still the Demon army, Rett has already sent runners to the all the major demon supply posts with unassuming messages. The messages are just general statements that'll hopefully escape suspicion, but there's a clause written in the Moon Claw's ancient tongue that gives the order to gather at a specific location at a specific time.

Hopefully, we can gather them before word of our desertion gets out. I wish the demons were worst of our concerns, we still have to travel about 620 miles to get to Hampton. That's a lot of territories to cover especially with such a large bounty on my head, but hopefully, with the force of battle-hardened beastmen I'll be able to get there in one piece.

The next few weeks were spent trying to fix logistical nightmares, due to the many things that had to be addressed before we could even begin to think about traveling. First were the rations, seeing as there wasn't a supply caravan coming from either humans or demons, we had to find a way to restock the already depleted reserves.