"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!"
Early that morning, Luo Zheng was awakened by a fierce drumbeat.
When he opened the door, he was immediately swept up in the atmosphere before him.
The imperial army, with one hundred men to a squad, was leaving the city in batches amid the war drums.
Afterward, Lu Xiao found Luo Zheng, organized the squad, accepted their mission, and led them out of the city to hunt Blade Worms.
The area extending more than a hundred miles directly in front of Dragon Fortress was the main battlefield where humans and Blade Worms clashed.
Along the way, they could see Blade Worm corpses everywhere, discarded on both sides of the road and piled as high as small hills.
Luo Zheng noticed that around those mountains of Blade Worm corpses, quite a few people were searching for something with their heads lowered, occasionally poking at the corpses.
Those people were actually ordinary mortals who had never tempered their bodies.
For mortals with no strength to appear in such a dangerous place, even a random ordinary Blade Worm could easily take their lives.
Seeing this scene, Luo Zheng asked in confusion, "Those commoners have no ability at all, yet they risk their lives to leave Dragon Fortress and wander outside. Aren't they afraid of dying?"
Hearing Luo Zheng's question, Lu Xiao immediately laughed. "Dying? Of course they're afraid of death. These fellows are killed by Blade Worms in large numbers every year. A few stragglers broke through two days ago and killed more than a dozen commoners."
"But what are they risking their lives to leave the city for?" Luo Zheng asked, puzzled.
Hearing this, Lu Xiao laughed. "This is all because your Azure Cloud Sect stirred things up."
Seeing Luo Zheng's confusion, Meng Changjun explained, "Our