"Have they begun to amass their army?"
The Akatsuki might be a dry land with little resources, but one thing they did not relent on was their breeding. They had children all the time and always encouraged such. They had been able to build one of the strongest forces in the Hinterlands because of this.
They were nomadic in nature, and except for their capital, they usually moved en masse from one place to another, changing locations and building temporary buildings.
The location of their capital was one of their closely guarded secrets. No one in the Hinterlands had been able to locate it.
This made fighting them difficult. They were difficult to invade because why would you attack and occupy? But they could attack. In fact, they had been gripping lands that were directly in Soryu's territory, and that was what alarmed the Chiefs from the beginning since his father did nothing about it.
One of the tasks Atrox gave the eastern army was to clear the border of such.
