Lin Qi and Yun nearly spat blood. Where had this bizarre etiquette come from? Lin Qi shot Hu Xinzhu, who was looking utterly pleased with himself, a fierce glare, then shook his head helplessly. Fine, if you wanted to stand, then stand. In any case, Lin Qi was not the one making you stand, so he felt no psychological burden whatsoever.
Drawing a deep breath, Lin Qi looked at Hu Xinzhu. "So, you have brought me the will of the Temple of War?"
Hu Xinzhu nodded earnestly. Reaching out to hold Mu Wei's little hand, he said in all seriousness, "If, under your leadership, the Dragon Mountain Empire can become a land of faith for the Temple of War, then you will receive the Goddess of War's blessing and inherit the divine office of one of the Goddess of War's subordinate gods who fell in battle—the Roaring Thunder, Varier."
Roaring Thunder Varier was the subordinate god of the Goddess of War most skilled at training soldiers and commanding military formations. Although his divine power was merely at the upper tier of the middle rank, the War God Legion he led had earned illustrious merits in the ancient divine war. According to supplementary records from Heaven Mountain, Varier's War God Legion was the only legion of gods that, after being besieged by an Angel Legion with a thousand times its numbers, had still managed to retreat successfully with half its original formation intact.
With the Angel Legion's cheat-like methods of warfare, even after they had deployed a thousandfold force to encircle him, Varier had still been able to take a beating while leading half his soldiers back to the gods' main camp. That showed just how formidable his command skills were.
And the reason Varier fell was that, in that battle,