The next day, as the rising sun first broke over the horizon, a group of knight commanders from Xuanyuan Fortress inspected the battlefield on the east bank of the Wei River, checking its defenses and preparations...
As the theater's logistics general, Zhang Tie was among the inspectors.
Zuo Qiu Mingyue walked at the front, with Zhang Tie at his side. Apart from Zhang Tie, the others accompanying Zuo Qiu Mingyue on the inspection were all Sky Knights currently stationed by Great Xia in the Western Theater. Among them all, Zhang Tie's rank as an Earth Knight stood out somewhat awkwardly.
Earth Knights were formidable, but whether one was formidable depended entirely on what one was compared to. In a setting like this, an Earth Knight truly amounted to little. Among this group, Zuo Qiu Mingyue was a Sacred Knight, while the other seven were all Sky Knights.
This was also Zhang Tie's first time walking alongside one Sacred Knight and seven Sky Knights. Though his rank was somewhat lower, Zhang Tie did not feel uncomfortable in the least, because he knew that the people walking with him were the most elite and powerful figures in all of Great Xia—no, in all of humanity. So many powerful knights gathered in one place were a rare sight even at Xuanyuan Hill. If the Devil Race had not invaded, if this had not been such an occasion, not only ordinary people, but even ordinary knights would never see so many mighty figures walking together in their entire lives.
Any one of these people could shake an entire region with a mere stomp of their foot and alter the course of Great Xia. That was no exaggeration.
Among them, Zuo Qiu Mingyue was Great Xia's Grand Marshal and its god of war. Of the