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Conscription

The draft King Rust's deal exempted his harem from, letting them sit out the war in hiding.

Story so far

Prepotente explains that King Rust's individually brokered deal with the AI allowed his courtesans to enter the dungeon as non-combatants who were unable to be conscripted.

That exemption kept Rust's Harem out of the Faction Wars entirely; they had been in hiding since Rust's death, surfacing only when the ball broke and Li Na's marks came due.

Role

The draft the harem's non-combatant status shielded them from.

Relationships

Rust's Harem — Exempt from it by King Rust's deal.
King Rust — Negotiated the exemption with the AI.
Non-Combatant NPC — The status that grants the exemption.
Sources — 16 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 4
  • The teams' power to hunt down unaffiliated crawlers and force them into service - the reason the Princess Posse has sixty hours to sell volunteering.
Chapter 35
  • Spell whose degree of control over an NPC is the benchmark for what a red-bannered new recruit is subject to.
Chapter 43
  • Faction Wars magic that forcibly drafts exposed crawlers, keeping Volteeg hidden through almost the entire ninth floor.
Chapter 48
  • Forced faction service that Boomer believes has swallowed Burcu's entire silent crawler team.
Chapter 57
  • The potion Carl held behind his back to force Prepotente into his army, then chose not to use.
Chapter 68
  • Faction spell that folds a defeated enemy's soldiers into the victor's faction, imperfectly binding them against attacking their new leaders.
Chapter 72
  • The strict rules binding drafted units to their army, which the war mages circumvented to kill their own war chief.
Chapter 77
  • A spell that binds captured crawlers into an enemy faction's military, marked on the map by a light blue glow.
Chapter 78
  • Spell forcing crawlers to fight for an enemy team, punishing refusal with a no-healing debuff.
Chapter 81
  • Spell that forces a target into your army, now weaponized against gods via hell-kissed potions.
Chapter 84
  • The forced-recruitment spell whose current version is near-unbreakable for the first days and expires at floor's end.
Chapter 85
  • The mechanic binding gods and enemies into Carl's army — holding Harpocrates and Lucia Mar alike.
Chapter 86
  • The compulsion binding Harpocrates to Li Na's will, which he is actively straining against.
Chapter 90
  • The one action item Akuma admits the war mages authored, disclaiming all the others as Agatha's doing.
Chapter 91
  • The binding servitude Rosetta uses as the benchmark for how much control Nekhebit now has over Donut.
Chapter 94
  • The draft King Rust's deal exempted his harem from, letting them sit out the war in hiding.
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