Borderland Blood Lion

Su Xiao was currently at the war front, while Bubu Wang was inside Saint Dragon City, the capital of the Dragon-Teng Empire.

After making contact, Su Xiao learned that the team searching for the World Core consisted of fifty people, all Agility-type contractors serving as scouts.

The scout team's mission was to find the World Core and bring it to a designated location. As for the subsequent guarding duties, those would depend on Su Xiao or the various Adventurer Teams.

However, before that, they first had to ensure that the situation on the war front between the Empire and the tribes remained stable. Once the front line was breached, there would be no need to search for the World Core. Most of the contractors would die beneath the tribal armies, and even those lucky enough to survive would be forcibly executed for failing the mission.

Su Xiao marched with the imperial army. The soldiers around him remained silent. The brutality of cold-weapon warfare was easy to imagine, but these soldiers felt no fear. Their faces held only numbness—the numbness of those who had long since stopped caring about life or death.

Among the people, there was a saying about becoming an imperial soldier: a soldier was a noble lord, a tiger beast, and a dog.

A noble lord referred to how, after receiving their military pay, soldiers could drink and visit brothels, living as carefree as noble lords.

"Tiger beast" was how commoners referred to tigers. Commoners feared soldiers just as they feared tigers, which was why they described soldiers as tiger beasts.

As for dogs, when war broke out, a soldier's life was worth less than a dog's. They lived for today without knowing whether they would see tomorrow.

Since they were marching across a plain, the army of