As the preparatory unit grows, so do the roads it must protect. Multiple small missions begin moving at the same time: guarding, carrying, observing, stopping, and returning. At Luve Village, the unit faces lives it could not reach, a night of six beasts, cargo that must move at dawn, and fever that follows people home. Every task—food, treatment, records, shields, wagons, and swords—belongs to the same purpose. The Five Roads is the volume where a collection of capable people becomes an operating system for bringing more of them back.