These followers, like the Ancient Dream Saintess in the past, were ordinary people who had suffered endless bullying, powerless even to truss a chicken, with no strength to resist.
Yet when they gazed into the Ancient Dream Saintess's eyes, through those eyeballs with four pupils, they saw the towering figure of the Great Horned Rat God.
And in every dream that followed, they received the Great Horned Rat God's blessings, guidance, and enlightenment.
Thus, they awakened all manner of skills and became commanders of the Great Horned Legion, with combat strength sufficient to contend against Clan Warriors.
After that, the Ancient Dream Saintess led her followers to uncover a great many temples hidden deep in the wilderness.
Quite a few of those temples had already been lost before the era of the Great Extinction Order.
They had lain sealed beneath the earth for a full five thousand years.
Even the oldest military nobles alive today did not know those temples existed.
They had only heard the earthshaking names of those temples in fragmented ancient war songs.
Yet under the Great Horned Rat God's guidance, the Ancient Dream Saintess found those temples with effortless ease, unlocked layer upon layer of mechanisms within them, and used the priceless treasures left behind by the Ancient Turan People at least five thousand years ago as the first capital for building the Great Horned Legion.
Naturally, the Underground Base deep within the Great Rift Valley, in the no-man's-land at the border between the territories of the Bloodhoof Clan and the Golden Clan, was also a gift bestowed by the Great Horned Rat God upon his devout believers.
And so, through the Ancient Dream Saintess's efforts, a storm once beyond imagining finally took shape in just a few short years, sweeping across heaven and earth.
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