They were approaching the gate of Raychester when they received words from three riders who met them on the way at twilight.

When King Luca had asked them what their mission was, one of them said they were coming to get aid for the city of Riverston which was under attack.

Then the King looked at the men which he was returning with and those eyes could tell that he was going to need some of them to go with the riders. While he looked at the soldiers he studied to know if they would like to go or not seeing that they were just returning from a fight.

As nature may have, there were always going to be those who would want to fight voluntarily. And since would not want to force any of his soldiers, he asked that those who were willing and had the strength to fight should join the riders.

To his greatest surprise, about half of them if not more were willing, and since they were close to the gate of their destination, he could not stop them since the war did not get that close to Raychest