If High Priest Shalin had not brought it up, Zhang Tie would have almost forgotten that, before becoming a knight and heading to the Ice and Snow Wilderness, he had once killed such a person.
The Scepter Archdeacon of the Holy Light Empire on the Western Continent? A man like that was a knight himself and had a massive empire on the Western Continent at his back. At the time, he had absolutely been a figure of towering renown. Relying on that very reputation, the fellow had nearly stirred up a major disaster in the Ice and Snow Wilderness.
But what did such a person amount to in Zhang Tie's eyes today? Over the years, Zhang Tie had killed more than dozens of Devil Race knights and Three-Eyed Society knights combined. Nearly half a dozen of them had been Earth Knights. As for a charlatan from the Western Continent whom he had once killed—he had killed him, and that was that. Naturally, the man had left no deep impression on Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tie had not expected that an incident from years ago would ferment again today.
Zhang Tie did not fear the Holy Light Empire of the Western Continent, but he also knew that while this Holy Light Empire might amount to nothing in Great Xia's eyes, it was a colossal monstrosity terrifying beyond measure to the Ice and Snow Wilderness.
Zhang Tie still remembered some information about the Holy Light Empire. This empire dominated a region in the eastern part of the Western Continent. The entire nation was ruled by the Holy Light Church, making it a state where religion and government were one. The Holy Light Empire revered invasion and possessed an extremely strong tendency toward expansion. Its population exceeded ten billion, and its territory was more