After this war, only a little over sixty thousand veteran soldiers of the Iron Blood Brotherhood remained alive. Nearly all of them were wounded, with several thousand suffering severe injuries such as lost arms or legs.
Lu Yang ordered them to lay down their arms and retire, then enroll in the academies he was about to establish. The academies would be divided into a Basic Research Academy and a War Academy.
The former would specialize in studying the various magical principles of the other world, methods of energy release, and the physical composition of the otherworldly humans. The latter would focus on spells and magic arrays. After graduation, outstanding students would enter the major combat legions.
The three East Sea cities would no longer remain clustered around the East Sea Underground City. They would return to places such as Feng City, Shancheng City, and Fu City. The Iron Blood Brotherhood would reduce the Twisted Voids in those places to the smallest possible size, allowing only creatures below Demon-Grade to emerge.
At the same time, of the Iron Blood Brotherhood's remaining sixty thousand intact troops, three thousand would garrison the East Sea Underground City, three thousand Fu City, three thousand Feng City, and five thousand Dan City. The remaining forty thousand-plus would follow Lu Yang to the Khorchin Grassland.
Lu Yang was preparing to launch a formal offensive, wipe out the surrounding enemies, and carve out a stable environment for all of Liao Province!
Three days later.
On the beach east of the Shekou Defense Line, Lu Yang arrived once again with Turbid Wine and the others. He handed ten Void Crystals to Ku Ai Bansheng and said, "Take Deep Sea and the others into the seabed and completely seal the entrance there."
"Mm." Ku Ai Bansheng nodded. He took the