In order to defeat Ye Ting, who wielded two great magics, Gaia had truly gone all out.
The first two Heroic Spirits she sent—Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes, and Ozymandias, Pharaoh Ramses II—were both supreme powerhouses standing at the pinnacle of Heroic Spirits.
In fact, the two Heroic Spirits who appeared afterward were no weaker than them.
The relatively slender white-haired Heroic Spirit was Karna, a powerhouse from the Indian pantheon: the Hero of Charity, son of the sun god Surya, and the great hero of the Mahabharata.
The rougher-looking black-haired Heroic Spirit was Romulus, son of the war god Ares and founding hero of Rome. He was the manifestation of the concept of Quirinus, one of Rome's three supreme gods, whom the Romans worshipped as the highest and most exalted god of Rome.
The former possessed the bloodline of the sun god, while the latter was the son of the war god and had been granted the faith of a chief god.
Whether in status or strength, Karna and Romulus were in no way inferior to Gilgamesh and Ozymandias.
What was even more interesting was their identities.
As everyone knew, human history had four great ancient civilizations: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Babylon, ancient India, and the ancient Celestial Empire.
If one spoke of the world's five great ancient civilizations, then one had to add the somewhat later Aegean civilization—the civilization of ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
Although the Aegean civilization was not as ancient as the other four great ancient civilizations, it had still been a glorious ancient civilization in its day.
And now, these four Heroic Spirits represented four of those five great ancient civilizations.
Gilgamesh came from Ancient Babylon.
Ozymandias came from Ancient Egypt.
Karna came from ancient India.
And Romulus came from the Aegean civilization.
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