Zetta did his damn best to sound disheartened and petulant. "It'd be terrible to waste valuable manpower on us. What else could you even give us? I'm sure there's not much you're even allowed to use up on us, considering how much effort we already are and how little we actually do."

Challenging his ego and at the same time giving him an opportunity to boast about his options and power? Well, it would work on a different Overlord. Zetta hoped Yavek played by the same genre conventions.