After settling a series of matters with Ying Zheng regarding stockpiling provisions, preparing to receive the army, and so on, Lin Qi left No. 1 Glory Street with a helpless wry smile. Surrounded by several thousand family guards, Lin Qi, Alda, and the others headed straight for the docks in the northern part of the city, boarded a warship, and traveled along the Seine River toward the Gallic Empire.
Since this diplomatic mission concerned upheaval in the Gallic Empire's most powerful neighboring nation, Holy Light I had specially dispatched Enzo to accompany them with five thousand Imperial Guards.
Thus, Lin Qi's party numbered over ten thousand men. With an expert like Long Yan hidden among them, though they were only a force of ten thousand, coupled with the prestige Lin Qi had gained from slaughtering over a hundred demigods of a single race in one battle, they were enough to handle any unforeseen turn of events.
Traveling south along the Seine River, Lin Qi's group disembarked at Malen Town after entering Lake Saint Grace. They secretly summoned Jiawu and had him mobilize men to gather intelligence on every aspect of the current Great Flame Dynasty, then hastened toward Flame City.
The Longshan Family was immensely wealthy, and everyone rode high-level magical beast mounts. They therefore spent only two days on the road before reaching Flame City, arriving even a day earlier than the Temple of War's envoy.
Earth was being moved on a massive scale. By the time Lin Qi and the others reached the imperial capital of the Great Flame Dynasty, their first impression was that the entire Flame City had become one enormous construction site. Using the original city walls as a foundation, huge numbers of laborers had pushed outward for twenty li and were excavating new foundations,