Chapter 117

Maracho had hired mercenaries from other Free Cities to pose as wanderers roaming outside the city, concealing their presence from the Elephant Party’s spies.

When Drogo led two-thirds of his army into the city, these men, under their paymaster’s command, donned the armor and weapons they had hidden away in the sewers.

The combined force of mercenaries and Tiger soldiers numbered over twenty thousand, arrayed against eight thousand Unsullied at the docks.