"Whose funeral was this? What great power was being buried here?"
After the ritual ended, Liu Ziqing looked up at the Black Coffin placed high atop the altar, quietly making guesses.
"Black Dragon Mountain Mercenaries, it's time to get to work. Follow me!"
The Snake-woman leader shouted and led the Black Dragon Mountain Mercenaries toward the top of the altar.
At the same time, mercenaries from the various Human Kingdoms also headed for the top of the altar under their leaders' direction.
"What are they doing?"
Liu Ziqing was puzzled, but it was not appropriate to ask, so he could only follow the others onward.
Before long, all the teams had reached the platform above the altar.
"Mercenaries, our task is to collect the remains of warriors who died in battle and place them in ebony coffins. Be careful—this is not without danger."
A leader walked before the Black Coffin, bowed to it, and waved out a beam of light.
"Hum..."
Light burst from the coffin, revealing an enormous gate of light before them.
"Get in! Hurry!"
The leaders of every unit shouted at once, leading their mercenaries charging through the gate of light.
"The inside of this coffin... is actually a world?"
Only then did Liu Ziqing understand that the coffin was not holding some great power, but human warriors who had died in battle.
Passing through the gate of light, he found a vast, boundless world before him.
Flowers bloomed across the brilliantly colored sky, yet every one of those flowers was as enormous as a planet.
An endless expanse of land stretched beneath their feet.
Yet atop that land stood an immense Corpse Mountain!
"So our task this time is to clean up and collect the remains of these human warriors who died in battle?"
As they