Harem Legion: Queens of the Apocalypse-Chapter 82 You Tied Me Up for This?

After dinner, Magnus headed back to the sleeper bus. Just like before, no one seemed interested in talking to him. He shrugged it off - at least the silence was peaceful.

Liana stepped in, handed him a detailed inventory list. It covered the Ice Regiment’s headcount, supplies, gear, and crystals - just the kind of things Magnus needed to look into.

Ice Regiment Personnel:

Current count: 507 members, with 336 Awakened. That’s a drop of 100 from when Magnus left. And that’s even after taking in two batches of newcomers today. Otherwise, the loss would’ve been worse.

Vehicles:

Warrior trucks, 23 box trucks, 12 off-road vehicles, 2 full water fire engines, 10 sleeper buses, 5 regular buses, 5 twenty-ton fuel tankers, 1 five-ton fuel tanker, 13 refrigerated trucks, 7 city buses, plus another 10 sedans and 5 armored vehicles captured from Henry’s squad. Total: 95 vehicles.

Weapons:

assault rifles, 2,864 mags, 1,031 full-auto pistols, 3,557 mags, 647 grenades, 1,333 military daggers.

Also: 15 shoulder-mounted rocket launchers, 33 rockets, 28 flamethrowers, and 42 bottles of backup fuel.

Food:

Grains - roughly 28,600 pounds in total. With each woman consuming about half a pound per day, 500 women go through approximately 275 pounds daily. That adds up to around 8,300 pounds a month - which means the stockpile would barely last three months.

Meat: 4,000 frozen chickens, ducks, and geese combined. 407 pigs, 148 cattle, 89 sheep. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Medicines and others: A long list, though Magnus didn’t go through it all. Emily had marked a few critical shortages in red.

Most critical shortages: toilet paper, vegetables, and instant noodles. High-calorie foods were also running low - those were marked in orange.

Crystals:

Total: 1,413 pieces. Fire Crystals: 411, Water Crystals: 592, Metal Crystals: 368, Earth Crystals: 18, Life Crystals: 22, Nature Crystals: only 2.

All of that came from the half-month Magnus had been gone - collected through the grit of the Ice Regiment’s women.

Not even counting the 2,200 Crystals stashed in Magnus’s own storage. If added, they’d hold over 3,600 Crystals - a massive reserve.

But Crystals get used up. The apocalypse has just begun. The longer it drags on, the more valuable - and rare - these things will get.

Magnus stared at the inventory for over 50 minutes before sighing. Weapons, vehicles, Crystals - all solid. Food was okay... for now.

People were enough - for peace time. But if they lost their Crystal edge, their fighters might fall short.

Vegetables and instant noodles - they could get by without them for a while. But toilet paper? That was a different beast.

If you want to lead a regiment right, it’s not just about keeping them fed and alive. You’ve got to let them live with dignity. Without basics like toilet paper, it’s only a matter of time before they forget what being human felt like. If they stop feeling human, why would they act like one?

Liana had plenty of patience. Magnus had been staring at that list for a good fifty minutes, and she just waited beside him the whole time. At last, he let out a breath and handed the list back. "We’ve gotta figure out how to get more toilet paper soon."

"I feel the same," Liana nodded. "Women use more paper than men. I was thinking of cutting down use starting tomorrow. If folks can manage without it for a quick pee, they should."

"Don’t." Magnus frowned and shook his head. "Sure, saving’s important, but when it’s needed, it’s needed. We’ll find a way to get more, just don’t make people feel like they have to suffer."

"Alright," she agreed. "But if that’s the case, we’ve got maybe four days’ worth left. We need a plan before then."

At 7:30 that evening, Sophia and Emily had reorganized the teams and brought along a few squad leaders, plus Charlotte and Liana, to talk with Magnus. About a dozen of them gathered in the food hall of the slaughterhouse, sitting around the big table.

This meeting, Liana had purposely invited Abigail and her sister, Sarah, and Grace to observe. She hoped it might help smooth things out among them - and maybe let them see just how important Magnus was to the group. Maybe they’d all stop giving him grief over petty things.

She was sharp like that. Though later, when Sophia pulled her aside, Liana would regret bringing them in. But by then, the damage was done.

The room was too quiet, not a soul eager to speak. It was like they didn’t even know what the meeting was about. Magnus had to open first. "Liana showed me the supply sheet. Toilet paper’s our biggest problem now. I’m thinking of leading a run with two trucks to Ironvale County and Towerfell Town tomorrow to restock."

Dead silence...

Not a word. No support. No pushback either. It left Magnus standing there, awkward and getting pissed. ’What the hell was this? Even if I was a bastard in private, I didn’t wrong any of you. Where’s this attitude coming from?’

"All done? Then we’re done here." Sophia stood up, cold as ever. Her loyal squad leaders rose too.

Magnus’s face clouded, but this time, even Liana and Charlotte didn’t try stopping her. He held back the fire in his gut and kept his voice as level as he could. "If anyone’s got a problem with me, say it now. But don’t bring that into the meeting."

He wasn’t being petty. Group matters were group matters. Personal crap didn’t belong here. So what if he screwed up in private? That’s no reason to silence him in a war room.

There were renegades all over the place, enemy bombers in the sky, and their food wouldn’t last past a few months. Shouldn’t they be talking strategy?

Sophia stopped by the door, turned her head just enough to glance back. "No problem with you, Magnus. You saved our lives. Not marrying you already feels like we’re in your debt, right? How dare we have opinions?"

She flicked a sideways glance at the Doyle sisters.

Still no one called her out. Charlotte kept her head down, silent. Emily stayed frost-cold, eyes averted. Only Liana met Magnus’s eyes, sighed lightly - but she too said nothing.

What the hell were they trying to do?

Done with me already, is that it? Now that Ice Regiment has a solid base and doesn’t fear air raids, they think I’m expendable?

That thought pushed Magnus deeper into the dark. And once a man starts thinking that way, he doesn’t always walk back.