After an intense battle, everyone would need rest, even Baron Dahl, who had not actually participated in the fighting. Because of all that tension he was subjected to when observing the battle, he felt exhausted and also needed a good rest.
Now it was the servant soldiers' time to work. In groups of three to five people, they started scouring the grounds of the gnomes.
This search had two goals in mind. The first was to see if they could find anything valuable, and the second was to search the grounds for any gnomes who were lucky enough to escape the blows of the soldiers' weapons. They would exterminate these fugitives and leave the tribe with no chance for revival.
To the servant soldiers, the former was more important, whereas to Dahl Hill, the latter mattered more—after all, these ghastly things reproduced at a rate that was simply too fast.
