Talk:Sorcerer King's Rescue Team/@comment-33998180-20180711194717/@comment-33998180-20180712170705

That makes a lot of sense. But I think this case is a bit more severe.

The fate of any human who crosses the demi-human force should be taken to a prison camp or made as food. And many villages were used as a prison camp. But there are thousands of small settlements and it is possible that not all of them were visited by demi-humans. And the visited ones were attacked with a delay in relation to great settlements.

But even so, most of the resistance was from liberated rather than from village fugitives from the early stages of the invasion. Almost as if HK was not as rural as our standards

Usually in history in case of known or rumored invasions, the rural population has two options to take refuge in the wild or the safety of walled cities. But the cities were all taken quickly so many of them must have taken refuge in the forest.

The campaign was relatively short. It lasted for at least five months. But it covered the whole dangerous winter, which must have been a huge burden for those who chose to flee inland.

Medieval humans are not dependent as people of our time, but that is because they are already living on the edge of sustenance, and this is reflected in their high death rate even in times of peace, where a bad harvest or a long winter upsets the balance and brings disaster. And here we still have unexpected scenario of massive elimination war in the winter made by a physically superior and resilient army that uses local people as one of the food to sustain itself.

An addendum would be that if small children and weak people counted it would be possible to halve the population in these conditions of war, winter deprivation and unplanned forced displacement of an entire country. Children are frail and are usually the majority in these stages of development.

But I think the casualties would depend on the will of the commander (Demiurge). I even think he limited the extermination that could have been done easily by the demihumans who have advantages in survival. Preventing them from leaving their fortifications and thus protecting the future Ainz subjects.

Proof of this is that only 10% of the demihumans responsible for scouting the Northern Holy Kingdom. While half was fortified and the remainder struggling in the south. It is almost certain that the population of that country must be what Demiurge planned in the beginning.