If Li Dayong had merely asserted that the "Eight Dragons" were top-tier powerhouses, Mousse might not have believed him. But the eccentric man had more to say.
Perhaps because the country was too large, the people of the Flower Kingdom had always found it difficult to unite completely. Even during that unbearable period when the nation fell, they were no exception.
Although, of the eight supreme experts later known as the "Eight Dragons," one had served as a collaborator for a time while the other seven remained hostile to the World Government's occupying forces, even those seven could at most refrain from betrayal and ambush when other factions fought the enemy.
Yet even this uncoordinated resistance cost the World Government an expert equivalent to a present-day Marine Admiral and most of the troops it had stationed within the Flower Kingdom, forcing it to retreat in disgrace.
Unwilling to accept defeat, the World Government committed resources no less than those it had used in the war to destroy the nation. It sent the man then hailed as the world's strongest, along with eighty thousand elite soldiers. Yet less than ten days after they landed, that former "world's strongest" was cleaved in two amid an army of ten thousand by the Blade Master, one of the "Eight Dragons." The troops he led were nearly wiped out as well.
What was especially worth mentioning was that the Blade Master's martial arts did not even rank among the top three of the "Eight Dragons."
Hearing this, Mousse could not help commenting, "How did they get such a precise ranking?"
"Of course, it was based on the outcomes of their battles." Li Dayong might have admired superhuman experts capable of shattering mountains and sinking islands ever since childhood, so he remembered the legends he had