For a few seconds, the three hundred thousand surviving troops stood completely still in the mud. Then, the clatter of falling steel began. Iron-priests dropped their disabled chainswords. Blood-cultists let their sacrificial daggers slip from their fingers. The sound cascaded across the western banks as an entire multi-racial army surrendered to the Ka-Lam-Tee. They fell to their knees in the ash, bowing their heads toward the Bastion.
Up in the Void, Red watched his faction interface update in real-time. The green population text spiked violently.
[ POPULATION INCREASE DETECTED. ]
[ +312,405 MIXED-RACE FOLLOWERS ACQUIRED. ]
[ ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: THE SHEPHERD OF RUIN. ]
[ REWARD: 5,000,000 DP, +10% GLOBAL FAITH GENERATION. ]
Red closed the population tab and activated the regional comms again.
