The ripple created by a single drop of water can instantly spread across the entire pond like a spider's web.
The same applies on land.
Baron Rodu watched with satisfaction as his private soldiers spread out along the Silver Smith River in the rain. Although their movements were slow and their formation chaotic, the coarse noble private soldiers shouted and jostled in the heavy rain, but they finally established a defensive line, even faster than he had anticipated by a quarter of an hour. Veterans who have been to the battlefield are indeed different, the Baron thought from horseback, entirely disregarding that their previous opponents were merely unarmed peasants and so-called 'thugs'.
