Attacks

[Alert! For every 1% decrease in the health of the walls, 10 copper will automatically be deducted from the accounts of everyone inside it.

[Let us defend our home together!]

That was to say, the guards and fighters didn't have to pay. 

Anyway, the first citizens did not complain even with the increase in the penalty costs. They weren't blind; they knew the walls and sentries must have been insanely expensive.

The newcomers, on the other hand, mumbled but did not dare speak out when seeing the established members not complaining at all. Who wanted to be an outcast?

The teams then went to their respective positions with Althea, Ansel, Hugo, and Helios—along with a score of guards—heading to the eastern gate.

The remaining guards and all the fighting citizens guarded the southwest gate.