The Wrath of the Unchained - Chapter 19 - The Foundation of a Kingdom

... what—and who—they had to work with.

Khisa stood before a large wooden table in the center of the council hut, a sheet of stretched leather spread before him. It had taken him weeks of careful surveying, questioning, and recording to reach this moment. But now, he finally had the first census in the history of Nuri Kingdom.

"Eight thousand."

That was the total population.

The room was silent as Lusweti, Nanjala, and the elders processed the number. What had once be ...