The dragon-breed steeds possessed both excellent stamina and speed, making them among the finest land-based mounts.
Of course, constrained by terrain and their mode of travel, dragon-breed steeds could not match the speed of aerial mounts.
Raven Saintess Safri had long made arrangements for this.
By traveling at full speed while minimizing the mounts' rest periods, the one-way journey would take only about two days to reach the settlement where Zong Shen was.
That was right. In her mind, Zong Shen's territory was still that settlement with merely a few hundred people. Safri could never have imagined that, in just over a month, he had gathered a population nearly equivalent to that of a small Bang City...
It was precisely because she had calculated the round-trip time that she told those black-robed bishops she would return in five days.
No matter what, she wanted to see Zong Shen one more time.
Safri was an orphan who had been taken in by the Church as a child.
During her childhood baptism ceremony, she had invoked divine will and received a trace of Calamity Raven divine blood bestowed from the distant void.
Thus, she became the new generation's Church Saintess. She received the focused cultivation of the Calamity Raven Church and lived a life free from worries over food and clothing.
But that support came at a price.
Everything she had belonged to the Calamity Raven Church.
As a beloved child of the gods and the Church's Saintess, she was supposed to dedicate everything she had.
Moreover, as she grew older and the awakening progress of the bloodline within her increased, her Frenzied faith was gradually encroaching upon the dominant consciousness of her true self. Safri had a premonition that before long, the bloodline consciousness would take control.
The complete loss of