Her statement was rather implicit, if the Conqueror's Army once failed to break through the Sambiya merchants' conspiracy and was defeated in the Goblin Margins, their so-called unification plan on the Giant Dragon Coast would become an absolute joke, with no possibility of taking root in Efanso. The dark forces would swarm like jackals, leaving nothing of them but crumbs.
Although Daphne had great confidence in Gaven's personal abilities, leading an army composed of civilians with families through the dangerous borderline wilderness and returning to a valley over a thousand kilometers away was much more difficult than imagined.
If the first half of the journey for the Conqueror's Army was a struggle against nature and the Monster Tribes, then in the latter half, they would have to contend with human forces as well, a factor which would prove to be even more deadly.