As the other teams spread out and checked the corpses, they began to pile the Ogres into great mounds, preparing for either burial or cremation, so that the rotting Ogre flesh didn't attract swarms of scavengers.
They might not be brave enough to come too close to the Elites, but they would pick away at the edges of the battlefield, and gorging themselves on Commander Rank Ogres might be enough to increase a few of the lowest Common Grade monsters strength to the point that they might be a real threat to the villages and mines.
It didn't really take much for the average village to be threatened. An Awakened Rank boar would be a nuisance to outlying farms, but a Swarm of Awakened Rank rodents would be a nightmare to try to purge from the village.
The problem was that it was beginning to get dark already, which would make it difficult for the teams to work on the cleanup, and far too easy to miss valuables as they worked.
