After the successive flying vessels had settled on the Mooring Boat Terrace at Dawn Harbor, the main vessel's hatch slowly opened, and a broad staircase of rainbow light descended, connecting all the way to the ground below.
Su Qian, dressed in a crisp military uniform and draped in a great military cloak, stepped down in her boots. Behind her followed her deputy, Wen Yi, along with a group of personal guards clad in Divine Robes.
The commandant who had been dispatched to Eastern Court Prefecture in advance hurried forward. Standing beneath the stairs, he gave her a military salute and solemnly said, "Commandant!" The soldiers behind him also snapped into a neat salute.
After descending, Su Qian returned the salute. She looked toward Auspicious Light City, shrouded in faint radiance ahead. When she had come here eight years ago as reinforcements, she had never imagined that one day she would assume the post of commandant here.
For the Eastern Court Protectorate Office to successfully transform from a protectorate into a prefecture, the Su clan had contributed greatly, and her successful promotion to commandant of a prefecture was the reward.
Of course, she first had to possess sufficient achievements to support her position. Otherwise, she could not simply be elevated.
Over these years, she had campaigned north and south, earning considerable merit in the campaign to exterminate the Taibo Monsters. Later, she had been transferred to fight in the Outer Layer, where her military achievements had likewise been brilliant.
Though she lacked somewhat in age and seniority, her abilities were sufficient. Moreover, with the Eastern Court Protectorate Office transforming into a prefecture, both Celestial Xia and Eastern Court needed military commanders with fierce ambition and initiative, not decaying figures content to preserve what already existed. In this regard, she was extremely