Bait

...After the quarter-century meeting, His Majesty Pythor summoned his Marshals and told them that they would not back off and gave them permission to use all the Empire's forces for this war. He told them that it was a war against a full-fledged planetary empire and that they had to bet everything for victory.

After that declaration, batches of epic weapons started to arrive, epic weapons sufficient to arm a few hundred soldiers! Although they were not complete, eye-catching sets like the ones the locals had in Planet Nihari, they were still powerful epic armor and weapons. They were even exempted from presenting the offering of the energy pearls they had been collecting for the past few years to be used in this war!

Pythor also declared that the war was important to the Overlord, and that anyone who performed a heroic act that contributed to the victory would be rewarded with a huge amount of Durger the Devourer's Blood...