It had been four days since we returned from the capital, and the settlement of Yuandu kept growing even more.
With the Guanghua soldiers being called back to the capital to protect it, the small towns around us became easy targets to free the enslaved villagers in them.
Now that we had the two Yushan lords, the food supply of the nobles was dwindling, and it was only a matter of time until they started opposing the empress or escaping the city.
Jackson was worried that Vyrazul would start killing the commoners in the outskirts to draw us out of our hiding spot in Yuandu, but I knew that it wouldn't be that easy for her.
Vyrazul could order her soldiers to start executing the commoners in the outskirts without remorse, sure, but not every soldier would follow those orders without a second thought.
Moreover, it would only increase the apathy of the nobles towards her, and I knew that Vyrazul was smarter than that.
