Of course, there were thousands of them there and the little bit of food wasn't enough to sustain them for a day. For most, they had to pass the Extreme Heat in hunger and in injuries, as they had been, but the discomfort and pain had piled up for days at this point.
Eventually, it'd be too hard to move even among the higher-leveled ones.
However, after what happened, fewer and fewer citizens joined in the fight, and the momentum amongst the guards lowered on top of their increasingly weakened bodies.
Shinho's family, who had been among those who were helping, had been injured in the last one and he didn't dare ask them to come out anymore.
No one dared to get monsters inside the walls as well; it wasn't like they'd be able to eat them anyway.
This received complaints of course, but what could they do if they weren't fighting out themselves?
