Decision

Emery brought his three friends along with him, casting [Spatial Gate] to get to their destination. 

They arrived on top of the mountains, looking down at the looming stone walls and the pit that had been created by Julian. 

There, they all saw how all rebels were passing through, walking through a hole that had been carved out of the rigid stone wall. 

As it was, it seemed that a good number of them had already passed through the hole sneakily in the middle of the night. 

Making a hole in a wall that was made out of pure stone and snow was not the hard part; what was difficult was getting 40,000 people across that deep, wide pit that lies before the wall. 

From atop the mountain, all four friends could see how exactly the rebels managed to do it. Apparently, they took the bodies of their fallen comrades into the pit, thus creating a gruesome yet impressive pile completely made up of frozen corpses, spanning about 10 meters deep and wide.