After one last gathering with Felton and the other two, Zhang Tie accepted the three remote communication rings, slept once more in Lion Fortress, and rested through the night. The next day, he prepared to return to the surface.
Felton and the others would remain at Lion Fortress for a few more days. Once their numbers were sufficient, they would join other knights from the Western Continent aboard an airship provided by Great Xia and return directly to the Western Continent, so Zhang Tie did not wait for them.
Early in the morning of July 15, Zhang Tie left the knight's tower where he was staying, then went to Lion Fortress's command office to complete the procedures for leaving the fortress and hand over his identification plaque for entering and leaving Lion Fortress.
"After you leave, your merit records and spending points in Lion Fortress will be retained. Since you are now an Earth Knight, the next time you come to Lion Fortress, you may collect a new identification plaque and enter the Earth Knight tower district. If you unfortunately die, your merit points and spending points may be designated as inheritance for relevant persons. If no heir is designated, your merit points and spending points will be reset to zero..."
A round-faced female officer behind the counter spoke expressionlessly. Zhang Tie rubbed his head. This female officer's presence was simply too overwhelming. Though she was only a captain and personally only level seven, she carried herself as if even Earth Knights were beneath her notice. Faced with a fortress female officer wearing such an utterly businesslike expression, Zhang Tie was helpless. An old virgin over forty with such a strange temper who still had not married herself off was the hardest kind of female creature in the world to