Several weeks passed. Down in the physical realm, the industrial vats never stopped churning. The Omni-Biomass Digester relentlessly processed the multiplied monitor lizard meat, the mutated Aegis-crops, and the Treants' fermented nectar into a hyper-dense alchemical paste. Red forced this massive caloric intake into the daily rations of every single unit in his empire.
Shortly after the command, Gorak, Iron-Scale, Mud-Skippers, and their detachment marched back into the stone courtyard of the Bastion, rejoining the bulk of the forces already stationed there and at the Onyx Hall.
With his entire army secured within his borders, Red initiated the next phase.
