Gret felt a deep attachment to the Azure Dragon Guards.
Even after she had established herself and formed the more powerful Rose Holy Lance Knights, she still missed the Azure Dragon Guards dearly.
Besides, the Rose Holy Lance Knights were a cavalry order, while the Azure Dragon Guards were a full-spectrum military force.
On horseback, they were cavalry; dismounted, they were assault infantry!
If Gret had the Rose Holy Lance Knights in one hand and the Azure Dragon Guards in the other, the two forces could support each other and grow stronger side by side.
Whether for sentimental reasons or practical considerations of strength, Gret had always wanted to rebuild the Azure Dragon Guards.
Now, at last, she could fulfill that wish to her satisfaction.
Zhou Yan heard her out and, without hesitation, brought out all the thousand-odd retired sets of Azure Dragon Battle Armor, along with their weapons.
There were 1,176 sets of retired armor, but only a little over nine hundred weapons in total, including sabers, spears, and crossbows.
Many soldiers who had exchanged their Azure Dragon Battle Armor back then had replaced only the armor. They had kept the weapons with which they had developed a bond and an instinctive understanding.
For a warrior, the quality of a weapon was certainly important.
But unless the difference in quality was enormous, greater sharpness and sturdiness alone were not enough reason to replace it. They preferred using the old weapons they knew.
Those old weapons had become their companions.
They had almost become extensions of their own bodies...
Gret did not mind. The people under her command felt the same way.
Many had been forced to withdraw in dejection after their armor had been shattered time and again, until it could no longer be used.
Yet the weapons in