Behind those relatively swift flying tower ships came nearly a hundred floating cities, each a hundred li across!
These war fortresses, forged by the gnome race during the Primordial Divine War and widely used by all races, were extraordinarily rare in the present age. Even with the Blood Qin Empire's national strength, Ying Zheng's methods and influence, and the Sovereign Council's covert assistance—not to mention the enormous manpower and resources expended—the Blood Qin Empire did not possess a single floating city as military equipment. Yet here, when the Heavenly Temple launched its attack on the Miro Divine Cult, it had brazenly deployed nearly a hundred such steel cities.
Beside the bronze floating fortresses, bristling with countless powerful magical devices, were densely packed golden-bronze war chariots. Each four-wheeled chariot, gleaming all over with golden light and pulled by puppet flood dragons, spanned roughly a hundred meters. Dozens of towering Heavenly Temple venerables stood atop every chariot. Every one of these venerables possessed strength at the peak of the demigod realm, wore demigod-grade armor, and wielded weapons that flashed with firelight and lightning of every color—each one nearly a divine artifact.
Moreover, these weapons were all long spears, great halberds, lances, mighty bows, and similar arms suited for battle formations. In a one-on-one fight, such heavy weapons might be clumsy and inconvenient, but on a battlefield, when tens or hundreds of thousands fought in a tangled slaughter, these were true instruments of mass death, capable of sweeping through all directions and massacring countless foes.
What alarmed Lin Qi even more was that every chariot in these dense, orderly aerial formations radiated powerful energy fluctuations. Thick magical shields tightly enveloped the chariots, and arcs of electricity linked one shield to another. Lin Qi could sense the immense might contained within those arcs—each one