Inside the City Lord's Manor of Radiant Flame City.
A one-horned fire demon, three meters tall and wreathed in golden flames, paced back and forth across the courtyard's black ground. He was Jin Yang, the City Lord of Radiant Flame City and chieftain of the Gloryflame Clan.
The arrival of the Gloryfire Clan had shattered the stability of the borderlands. For the lord of a small border city like him, the Ancient God Race had never truly concerned him.
It had been millions of years. The Ancient God Race had never dared attack their main cities, and Jin Yang often led his clansmen out to slaughter members of the Ancient God Race for sport.
The Gloryflame Clan was not strong compared to the races living in the heartland illuminated by Flame Star, but they were powerful in the borderlands. They had one peak-level Main God, sixty High Gods, more than five thousand Mid Gods, and countless Low Gods and quasi-gods.
Even if the Ancient God Race came, or even if they went to war against the Void Zerg, their race would still be a force not to be underestimated.
The reason Jin Yang was so troubled was that he also understood the Gloryfire Clan's true reason for coming to the borderlands. What the Nether Flame King had done in the Lava Sea had intimidated not only all the surrounding main cities, but also the small cities in the borderlands.
He did not dare offend the Nether Flame King, but the Nether Flame King had ordered him to fully cooperate with the Gloryfire Clan in exterminating the Ancient God Race. Yet did he dare obey the Gloryfire Clan's orders?
If they were merely fighting the Ancient God Race, he had no objections. What Jin Yang truly feared was that after the