Qu Tong, a Provincial Graduate from Two Worlds Mountain, and Jie Bingzhi led the Pearl River Army toward the barracks beneath the Two Worlds City wall. Qu Tong seldom spoke, while Jie Bingzhi patiently explained various matters.
"This batch of Literary World armies is rather fortunate, because just a month ago, the Demon Realm launched a massive assault that included some Demon Barbarian Kings. As you know, under the conventions of the Myriad Worlds, only Great Demon Kings, Great Barbarian Kings, Great Scholars, and others of that level count as true kings. Ordinary Demon Kings and Barbarian Kings don't qualify as kings in the true sense. In that assault, the Demon Realm sent more than a hundred Great Demon Kings and Great Barbarian Kings to storm the wall. The human race had far too few Great Scholars, so our losses were devastating."
"However, our human race had long since prepared powerful mechanisms, Light Iron Arrows, and other supplies, and successfully drove back the Demon Barbarian Kings. The Demon Realm has far more kings than the human race, but thirty-seven Demon Barbarian Kings died in that battle alone. They won't deploy kings to attack the wall again anytime soon."
The generals from the Literary World silently marveled. All of Sage Kong's Literary World had only a dozen or so Great Scholars, yet the Demon Realm could mobilize more than a hundred of their peers for a single assault.
"This is good news, but also bad news. It means that this batch of Literary World armies no longer has any chance of making it onto the Military Merit Register, and therefore won't receive any additional privileges."
"What sort of privileges come with a place on the Military Merit Register?" Fang Yun asked.
"For example, Two Worlds Mountain will provide whatever the top