Leguna's Decision

After another half a month passed, the war was now in its cruelest stage. Near half of the hundreds of thousands of Hockian soldiers had perished and even more of the trained warriors fell on the battlefield. A few years later, the historians' research revealed that the Tide of Death cost the continent a third of its human population. To protect their own nation, half of all Chinoan males were sent to the battlefield. When the battles were finally over, the number of males that remained was thirty percent smaller than that of females.

It was precisely due to this crisis that Hocke made it legal for a man to take multiple wives and reward the family for each male child born as a measure to improve the demographic...

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