Over the next three days, the four factions were ambushed five more times, each time on a larger scale. In the last attack, the horde consisted of nearly 30,000 Digestors, with a few Rank 4s leading them.
At the same time, each of these assaults resulted in numerous casualties among the three factions despite their change in policy. Although the high-level Evolvers were now actively participating in the fighting, it was not enough to completely ensure the safety of the remaining refugees.
Fortunately, even a herbivore would eventually learn to bite after such violent and repeated assaults. Under the suffocating and life-threatening pressure of the Digestors, these once weak and spineless refugees had shed their former cowardly skins and turned into ferocious Kamikazes. When one had nothing left to lose, one could accomplish anything!
Edit: While posting the chapter, I noticed that I forgot to put the activation cost for United We Stand. It's 1M per minute for those who read the previous version.
Jake is obviously paying for it, but he has his Purgatory which produces 1B of Aether per day. With the felines' help, he can even keep the skill active full time if he wants to, but he's not that altruistic yet I promise.