Armor clanged as a large group of Dawn Temple Dawn Knights entered the gorge. They were fewer in number than the Knights of Punishment, but each of them was far stronger than the Punishment Knights. In terms of sheer presence, the Dawn Knights instead overwhelmed the Knights of Punishment.
After all, the Punishment Knights around Arthur were merely personnel assigned by the upper ranks of the Temple of Punishment behind him to accompany him on outside business. Naturally, there could not be any truly elite fighters among them. At most, only around a hundred could be considered genuinely skilled.
But Kars Chenxi and the several divine-blooded youths behind him were the core upper echelon of the Dawn Temple. They carried divine blood in their veins, and among them—including Kars Chenxi—three even possessed a trace of divinity within their bodies!
Compared to Arthur, these second-generation descendants of gods from divine-blooded families were far more important. Therefore, their guards, these Dawn Knights, were all top experts meticulously selected by the Dawn Temple. They stood off to one side without so much as drawing a heavy breath, yet among them were no fewer than twelve mighty demigods.
Though they were only lower-stage demigods who had just stepped into the demigod realm, this alone showed how formidable this force of Dawn Knights was.
Moreover, Kars Chenxi had cast a divine spell and summoned a projected incarnation of the God of Morning Glow, a subordinate god beneath the Dawn God. He possessed divine blood and even a trace of divinity, giving him an extraordinarily high degree of compatibility with this projected incarnation. Though his own strength was far inferior to that of the Chief Arbiter confronting him, the projected incarnations of the gods behind them had fought to a draw.
Vast divine might surged and