A long dragon roar rose from Golden Dragon City and shot into the sky.
Lin Qi stood atop the head of a flame dragon, leading several dozen dragons almost vertically into the heavens. They tore through the clouds and flew straight to an altitude of several thousand meters. Looking down from there, all of Vias was enveloped in brilliant firelight.
To the northwest of Port Vias, huge groups of soldiers clad in black cloaks and armed with bizarre curved blades and serpentine swords were gathering. By starlight, they formed ranks in the wilderness, poised to charge into Vias at any moment.
"So these are your soldiers!" Lin Qi said with a smile to Yellow Elephant Divine Venerable behind him.
"These are our believers!" Yellow Elephant Divine Venerable proudly stroked his ivory-yellow beard. "They are loyal, fearless, and every one of them can offer up everything for their faith! They are the strongest warriors!"
Lin Qi curled his lip and pointed north of Vias. "I think the warriors of the Longshan Family are the strongest."
Yellow Elephant Divine Venerable and Silver Lion Divine Venerable merely smiled without comment. In their eyes, no matter how powerful a secular army might be, how could it compare to believers who had been hypnotized by religion? The warriors Guardian God Palace had brought to the Western Continent were all the finest fighters selected from the tribes, great and small, within the Guardian God Palace's territory.
What outsiders did not know was that these warriors had all taken the Guardian God Palace's secret medicine. They had lost their sense of pain and could feel no suffering at all. Under the effects of the secret medicine, even their fear had completely dissipated. They were utterly combat puppets. Puppets with human minds—what could be stronger warriors than that?