Colorful flags fluttered over Port Vias. Basket after basket of flower petals was swept into the sky by wind mages controlling gale-force winds, then drifted slowly down from on high like rain. Red, white, blue, and green petals, each carrying a heart-soothing fragrance, floated gently down. Then drums and horns thundered skyward, and an even greater roar of cheers raised waves several feet high across the sea.
The corpses of the Dragon Wing Legion were loaded onto enormous ships. According to the official statement, these bodies would be transported to a deserted island overseas for burial, lest the filthy corpses of the Dragon Wing Legion cause some sort of plague.
The bloodstains were washed spotless by water dragons summoned by water mages. Then, amid countless cheers, ten enormous teleportation magic arrays gradually lit up. Tens of thousands of Vias soldiers—proud as little roosters in heat, swaggering magnificently, dressed in exquisite and luxurious finery, gaudy as flowers in bloom—walked into the teleportation arrays and were swiftly sent to the distant Green Forest Province.
Behind these regular Vias troops came thirty thousand soldiers Lin Qi had commissioned Baron Wei Han, a military officer of the Noble Council, to recruit, along with fifty thousand mercenaries who had signed employment contracts pledging loyalty to the Longshan Family for the next ten years.
Eighty thousand soldiers using teleportation arrays for mass transport at once was an exceedingly rare sight on the Western Continent.
In the Blood Qin Empire, teleportation arrays on this scale had long been spread throughout every city of sufficient size. But on the Western Continent, only the Church had the means to establish such long-distance teleportation arrays in its great cathedrals, and even then, the number of people they could transport was limited.
After all, compared with the wealthy and powerful Blood