Clean up, clean up,

Everybody, everywhere,

Clean up, clean up,

Everybody do your share!

This cute, children’s rhyme perfectly describes the Coalition’s reaction to the giants breaking out of the cordon. As the groups of giants rampaged, destroying villages, soldiers followed, picking them off with mages and archers. It took over a month, but eventually, the giants were exterminated.

What a mess! That one attack devastated the Coalition! Dozens of villages were ruined, but more importantly, so were two capitals. Their short, rotting walls were easily kicked over. Over ten thousand civilians perished; the largest amount of casualties they have ever had. I’m quite pleased!

The deities are beyond furious. This one attack has severely lowered the Coalition’s morale. Suffering a defeat would make them invent new things to protect themselves, but losing so many family and friends just shocked them. It’ll take them a few years to recover their lost numbers, and by then, OGG will have an even larger army.

The deities are comforting their citizens and taking charge. They’ve ordered the reconstruction of the defensive fort, with walls twice as tall and thick as before. In addition, they’ve set several intelligent builder-types the task of learning how to build with stone. They hope that in a few decades, every major city and fort will have stone walls.

With the loss of so many men (most of the soldiers are male), women have to work the fields. This means that they can’t take care of their children, so the deities had a few people in each village take care of the kids during the day; in other words, they invented school!

I’m surprised they didn’t implement an official education system already, because it’s a big success. Teaching people read, write and do basic math at a young age greatly helps them when they’re older. Still, better now then never.

To stop future giant attacks, some smart guys made Ballistae! They thought ‘If a bow can’t hurt a giant, we should build a bigger bow!’. The ballistae shoot wooden bolts with iron tips over two meters in length, up to a thousand meters away. One of them could easily impale a giant, and deal much more damage than a regular bow. After seeing the prototype, the Coalition leaders immediately decided to install several of them on the walls of every city. The only problem is that the ballistae are heavy. Soldiers would have a hard time getting to invaders quickly.

All things considered, I made the right decision, impersonating Exitium and ruining the deities’ plan. These battles are fun to watch, and it’s cool to see people invent new things. I wonder what other mayhem I can cause...