When it came to Dawn Continent's Fortress No. 15, Lei Dong had long since thoroughly investigated the enemy's strength. What made them formidable wasn't just the six Nascent Soul Winged God People, nor the hundred Golden Core Winged God People. The most fearsome threats were the hundred-plus Light Cannons mounted atop the fortress and the Iron Blood Knights, with a full ten thousand men in their ranks.
The so-called Iron Blood Knights were a unique branch of the Bright Holy Domain's forces. They were drawn from the vast population of its subjugated subjects. These subjects were also human, but after living in the Light Domain for a long time—through tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of years of evolution—they had adapted to its environment and become a different human race. They had fair skin, strong, tall bodies, and golden or other-colored hair. Gradually, they had come to resemble the Winged God Clan.
They were rather like the white people of Lei Dong's previous life.
This human race flourished in the Bright Holy Domain. They were the most numerous mortal race under the rule of its many floating continents. After generations of indoctrination, these people had long since lost themselves. They believed they were descendants of the Winged God Clan, worshipped the Winged God Clan as gods, willingly accepted their rule, and desperately yearned to become members of the Winged God Clan.
In truth, the Winged God Clan did reward some humans who stood out in strength and had rendered meritorious service. Using a formation spell called Light Conversion, they transformed their bloodlines into those of the Winged God Clan. But the process required Life Divine Water, so few people were transformed. Still, over the long span of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years, the numbers