The first stage of the war scheme was underway. The Commander of the imperial forces Babida and his henchman Baba were now preparing the next one.
The three volunteers were already gone to the forbidden mountain to tease the newborn Monster and entice it to the river at the west gate of Okunde.
However, without a strong backup on their return to the village, they would have had a hard time trying to push the villain to the deep water of the stream so it drowned.
The two strategists, Commander Babida and his aide-de-camp Baba, had therefore planned to build a huge bridge over the river that would be steady on its extremities but weak in the middle.
And for that, they estimated a massive workforce of two hundred imperial warriors, was necessary.
