Devaguea simply asked Tina to stay safe while travelling, fully aware that there were several provinces to the south that he would rather go through with an army rather than deal with.<br/><br/>The dragon duke looked over the reports, and frowned as he failed to see the pattern that Nordri did, but decided that it was something to keep an eye on. Sadly, that meant they first needed to finish the two towns on the build list, and then he could do something about it.<br/><br/>He idly circled his paladin as he thought, before slowly nodding as he stared out over the lake. With the nation boasting a population of just short of forty eight thousand, they could field almost five thousand troops with their current recruitment. Every one of those soldiers were assigned to either peace keeping, training, or practicing maneuvers, but that did mean that mobilizing them, even with the robust infrastructure, would take at least a week before they could start getting respectable numbers. He finally agreed, and put her to researching mercenaries that were worth actually hiring.<br/><br/>Serena's revelation that they STILL didn't have a courthouse in the capital made him frown, before nodding and making a note to add one quickly.