On the Primordial Continent, no one in Great Zhou could be granted a noble title without Military Merit. The status of Military Merit could be called incomparably important, yet compared to the Devil Race, Great Zhou placed slightly less emphasis on it.
Within the Devil Race, Military Merit had been elevated to an extremely lofty position.
It could be said that within the Devil Race, Military Merit was connected to everything—status, official rank, fiefs, real authority, reputation, wealth, and all else.
Moreover, this ran from the bottom up. Even one's right to speak within the Devil Race, including the authority wielded by the various imperial clans, received enormous boosts from Military Merit.
This atmosphere made every devil exceptionally warlike.
However, the Devil Race's rough systems, along with a political structure utterly incomparable to Great Zhou's, determined that their auditing of Military Merit could not be as precise as Great Zhou's.
Thus, the Devil Race's Military Merit was divided into two parts. One was battlefield merit, which could be accurately measured; fiefs, official ranks, real authority, and status all changed accordingly.
The other was merit from killing enemies, which fell under personal heroism. Ordinarily, it merely earned one better food and drink, or some fame that made it easier to take up official posts under certain lords.
But if one stirred up a major incident, things became completely different.
One thousand six hundred and thirty years ago, a group of brats from the Three-Eyed Demon Imperial Clan had actually dared to sneak into a logistical fortress on the Human-Demon Battlefield.
Great Zhou's troops had also grown lax, believing that no devils would dare, or even be able, to break into a logistical fortress situated in the rear of the Human-Demon Battlefield.
Yet those brats from the Three-Eyed Demon Imperial Clan had