Perseus's assistant received the order immediately with a salute and proceeded to quickly carry it out.
The result of which he presented to his king a few days later.
But alas!
For though Perseus had hoped for some groundbreaking answer, one which he hoped to use to solve his predicament, the news he got was far more pessimistic and worrying than he could have ever guessed.
"My lord, at first when we questioned the captured men with regards to the new archers, none of the men were able to give us any answers."
"Even after we roughed them up, and asked quite a few of them, they still gave the same reply, that they had no idea of any new archer regiment being hired."
"And after a while, he began to believe them. Because it was clearly impossible for so many men to be lying."
"And I was about to report that to you," Here the adjutant, who was giving the summary of the report in front of Perseus's war council paused a bit to take a breath, before continuing,
