The Blackrealm Continent, Ashen Soil Canyon.
The great battle had ended. The dark mists of shadow slowly dissipated over the scorched earth, while a wind laced with death howled through the canyon, sweeping up scattered bone fragments. The mountain of Extermination Race corpses that had once piled up there had also vanished.
The slain Extermination Race warriors had turned into Sacrificial Power and Evolution Points for the players. The Extermination Race remains left behind from their battle against the Dragonwing Clan had also been taken away when the Player Legion withdrew.
Anything with value had been listed in bulk on the Trading House. The rest, for which no use could yet be found, had been sacrificed to Di Zhao.
The three allied legions that had crossed worlds to fight this battle had reaped a rich harvest.
In addition to the spoils from their kills, they had also obtained a large amount of loot.
Weapons, equipment, and tools of war, for example.
The battlefield after the battle was a scene of utter devastation, riddled with ravines of varying depths and cracks that crawled across the ground like earthworms.
Energy shockwaves had sheared away half the cliffs on either side of the canyon, exposing layers of rock scorched black.
The stone bridge the Dragonwing Clan had built across the canyon had collapsed into rubble. Its broken span jutted at an angle into the murky, bloodied water, its planks riddled with cracks and traces of corrosion from shadow energy.
Beyond the canyon lay Dragon Court City.
The city walls, once shielded by dragon scales and built upon Dragon Crystals, now bore hideous wounds.
A gap nearly a hundred meters wide had been torn through the eastern wall. Shattered dragon scales mingled with the blood of Dragonwing warriors, strewn across the open ground outside