Aside from these three legions, the fourth and fifth legions were also being prepared. However, these legions under construction had yet to gather suitable heroes and troops, so they had never been able to take shape.
They were still stuck halfway.
Instead, some heroes who had been unable to join the legions gradually grew stronger. After more than ten years of development, the troops under some important heroes had reached full strength, and those heroes had formed their own distinctive styles.
Among these heroes, nine stood out the most. Liu Zhi had not given them some title like the Four Heavenly Kings and Five Vajras. He had merely granted them a certain degree of authority, allowing them to adjust their own troops according to their wishes.
These independent heroes all followed a path where one main hero led two deputy heroes and commanded thirteen organized units. This was quite different from the structure in which ten heroes formed a legion.
Among these independent heroes, the main hero had absolute control over the deputy heroes.
That was why the three heroes could be counted as one unit.
Liu Zhi had studied the matter for a long time, but still found no way to implement it on a large scale within his own forces. In fifteen years, only nine independent main heroes had emerged, and Liu Zhi was frantic with impatience.
If things had gone more smoothly, he would have long since planned to establish a grand army composed of thirty heroes.
Of these nine independent heroes, only two had been with Liu Zhi from the early days.
One was the guardian of the Nether Palace, the city guardian hero Mand. As a lich, he did not have particularly strong talent in magic. Instead, his ability to protect the Nether Palace had