Not only were these small nations under attack forced to bow their heads obediently, but even those countries that were still safe for the moment did the same. Every last one of their domestic troops was conscripted away, while vast numbers of laborers, provisions, and military supplies were likewise gathered and handed over to the Blood Qin Empire.
Even some of the orc tribes along the Blood Qin Empire's northern frontier—tribes that had been nearly wiped out by the empire over the past two years—the Snow Bear, Snow Wolf, and Snow Leopard clans, all surrendered their young and able-bodied members. They were mixed into units and absorbed into the Blood Qin army.
On the Blood Qin Empire's western frontier, within a boundless stretch of Gobi only ten days' journey from the Continental Bridge, thousands upon thousands of teleportation arrays, each roughly a li in diameter, periodically erupted with blazing light. Great columns of fully armed kingdom soldiers emerged from the light in panic. Amid the shouted orders of Blood Qin soldiers maintaining order nearby, these kingdom troops scrambled miserably to grab their weapons and packs before filing into the military camps that had clearly just been erected around them.
All the generals and officers of these kingdom armies had been purged. They became an officer corps, assigned to supplement the Blood Qin Empire's regular army and incorporated as part of it. Meanwhile, large numbers of Blood Qin Empire junior officers and soldiers were sent into these kingdom armies, becoming their officers and commanders.
The Blood Qin Empire's enormous war machine had begun to turn. Countless provisions and loads of military supplies poured here through the teleportation arrays like a flood, stored in massive warehouses. Great numbers of high-capacity storage artifacts were gathered as well. Every commanding general and officer received