Qiao Jin was flying upward.
From her vantage point, the Snake Demon Empire's cities hung upside down in the sky, half-real and half-illusory. She could clearly see the streets within the cities and the various races looking up at the heavens. It was shocking beyond words.
The generals kept flying upward when, suddenly, it felt as though they had passed through a curtain of water.
In an instant, gravity reversed!
The city that had been half-real and half-illusory became real, while the wondrous world that had been real before became half-real and half-illusory. They awkwardly righted themselves and hovered steadily in the air, then curiously looked back overhead. Mountains and rivers still lay before their eyes, seemingly close yet perhaps impossibly far away.
Her heart brimmed with confidence in the plan ahead.
"The war... is about to begin..."
After deeply gazing at the world above her, she flicked her cloak and sped straight toward the imperial center.
Afterward, Qiao Jin regained the bearing of the Female General she had once been and gathered officials and ministers from every department to swiftly set the plan in motion.
"Immediately issue a conscription order! Summon the empire's brave warriors! Expand the army! Prepare for war!"
"All armories are to operate at full capacity!"
"Warships, armor, and military equipment must be forged as the highest priority!"
"Also... establish a cemetery in the tranquil lands of the Southern Wasteland, and build a Hall of Lingyan. Fallen soldiers may return to their roots like fallen leaves. If their bodies cannot be brought back, their spirit tablets shall be sent into the Hall of Lingyan for veneration."
Casualties were inevitable in war, especially when their enemy was an evil fiend that had ravaged countless worlds and was no soft persimmon to be squeezed.
To gain something, one