Upon hearing the news, Malina rose to her feet, turned her ear to listen, and faint sounds of shouting and killing drifted from the south.
Inside and outside of Hand Snake City, there were about four thousand tribal warriors, who in fact belonged to different clan leaders and chieftains. The chieftain and the war elder commanded the elite of sixteen hundred clans, the hunting elder had four to five hundred tribal huntsmen, while he had only a little over a hundred ordinary warriors in his hands. As for the remaining one to two thousand people, they were scattered under the control of ordinary elders and chieftains, who lived in the safest part of the city to the south.
"Send a few men to summon the guards of the chieftains from the north of the city! Tell them to abandon the defense of the north and come to the chieftain's tent for escort as quickly as possible. Then dispatch an envoy... no, go yourself to ask Elder Topupan to come over!"
