That fire in my veins began to dwindle as the last of the monsters fell lifelessly to the ground, adding to the mountain of bodies that we were now going to have to spend the next few days, maybe even weeks dealing with.
Sorting through all of the at, hides, bones and various other valuable or usable pieces of these monsters was going to be an enormous task, yet it was also a very lucrative and needed thing to do, especially as my eyes swept over the people that had fallen during this battle as well.
It was never going to be easy to rember that such a large number of enemies would almost certainly always bring about casualties on our side since I was so accustod to fighting with a select handful of people who were more than capable of surviving quite a lot.
There were even so Demons amongst the dead, sothing that surprised montarily before I took a breath and steadied myself, knowing that now the actual hard part was coming up; if I had known how draining the actions I would need to take after a battle were going to be, I might have just accepted a small plot near the Labyrinthian instead...
Shaking those thoughts from my mind, I carefully began to clean off my blade while gathering my breath, already running so of the numbers in my head as I just looked around silently; a minute later Leone ca down to join , her usually radiant and gentle visage twisted with mild grief.
"We lost more than I thought we would..."
I just humd in agreent, already seeing over a dozen bodies just nearby, though my hopes were that this would be the area with the most amount of loss; with my presence most of the horde had swung around to hit this particular patch of the wall over and over again, so hopefully the other parts were doing alright.
A few of the Demons were silently gathering up their fallen comrades, pulling them into the city and taking imnse care of them now, while the rest of the mortals all milled about mindlessly for a few minutes, unable to really grasp what happened as exhaustion took them.
"That was fun~!"
Hearing Satanya nearby, I sighed and glanced over at the red skinned Demoness before turning back towards the now silent battlefield, wondering if I was going to have to add one more body to the pile tonight...
"Tis a sha that we lost as many as we did... Demons in particular are going to be hard to replace. Guess that ans we need to shift our focus from comrcial expansion over to fortification instead. So of these people aren't fit for close quarters battles, but they could very easily man a ballista up on the walls."
Thankfully the woman was capable of knowing when and where her attitude would actually be acceptable, and for this mont she was speaking rather 'normally' for what was happening, though her gaze definitely lingered far too long on certain parts of .
"We'll need to start adding enchantnts onto the walls as well to bolster their defensive capabilities. As crude as it will look, we should make use of the good bones to shore up the walls so more, maybe add in so barricades or such at the base of the walls to keep monsters from getting too close."
Satanya imdiately shook her head and said "Those bones would be best used for weaponry or potions. Get a fully stocked armory at every key point on the walls, where a simple guard could get outfitted with a thick shield, long spear and so decent armor.", further proving to that she could - in fact - be rather reasonable when she believed it necessary.
Soon enough a few of the older Ciriesa's approached and began to discuss my earlier idea of wide spread enchantnts across the walls, and for a few minutes we were just standing outside of the walls, taking in the vast amount of corpses piled up around us and finding so solace in just how many there were compared to our own.
When a Beliali approached with a small notebook, we were interrupted about the future and brought back to the present as he offered it to , telling that the total number of dead amounted to twenty four confird and three more currently missing.
Their nas and where they had died was jotted down in neat script, and I took a mont to morize all of them before telling the Demon to keep inford on the remaining three, which were hopefully just unconscious sowhere and not dead.
Seven Demons were amongst that number, and for a population as small as ours that was quite significant... though there was nothing we could do now besides ensure that we were thoroughly prepared for the next attack, no matter how large or sudden it was.
The other seventeen confird dead were a mixture of all kinds of races, and imdiately I had another problem that needed solving; how are we going to go about dealing with our own corpses in the future?
Whether they died in duty or of natural causes, what was the plan for them, and would there be a need for specialized processes or would I just tell everyone that our city would only bury or cremate our dead, nothing more?
Cremation would save space but many see it as desecration whilst burial calls for grave tenders and that aforentioned space... it was definitely a problem I hadn't given any thought yet whatsoever, and now I had to deal with that as well as another problem.
The family of the deceased should be given sothing because of their loss, but the question was what that should be; so coin - but how much? - as well as basic arrangents for whatever they desire for the body, but is there more that they should get?
What can we reasonably give to soone who just lost soone close to them, to at least help smoothen things out however much we possibly could..?
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