Metal was scarce in Turanze. The Ratfolk Servant Soldiers' armor and shields used large amounts of wood and stone; while ensuring defense, they weighed several times more than metal equipment.
Even Ratfolk Servant Soldiers who had undergone Meng Chao's special strength training were drenched in sweat and shaking at the knees after standing for a full Ke Shi. Many simply rolled their eyes back and fell stiffly to the ground.
Only after twenty or thirty Ratfolk Servant Soldiers had collapsed, with some even convulsing from being stifled by their thick, heavy armor, did Brute Hammer arrive at his leisure.
This warrior, who possessed the Brute Mammoth Bloodline and had the largest build among the Four Aces of the Blood Skull Arena, walked up to the apprehensive Ratfolk Servant Soldiers with his hands behind his back. His long trunk, swollen at the tip like a bone tumor, swayed slowly from side to side.
"I am Brute Hammer. Some of you have heard my name. Some of you were only just released from the dungeons and may not know me yet. That's fine. In the training and battles ahead, we'll have plenty of chances to get to know each other well!"
Brute Hammer bellowed at the top of his lungs, his face brimming with Killing Intent. "But I know many of you. I know you trained with some crooked, opportunistic methods, and under Ice Storm's leadership, you lucked into a few victories. Now you think you're something special, the strongest servant soldiers in the Blood Skull Battlegroup!
"Ice Storm may be an ace of the Blood Skull Battlegroup, but a contest on the arena stage and a real battlefield are completely different matters. If you want to keep seizing victory and glory in the Five Clans Competition, even the Era of Glory,