The Grand Academicians who had taken part in the first Battle of Two Worlds Mountain, in particular, suddenly sighed softly.
Back then, the Demon Realm had deployed billions of demon barbarians to unleash the Demon Sea Tactic. Once ordinary demon barbarians climbed onto the walls, they would send large numbers of Demon Marquises or Demon Kings to attack, inflicting incalculable losses on the Human Race.
Every assault in which a hundred marquises-or even a hundred kings-mounted the walls heralded grievous losses for the Human Race. Yet today, a newly promoted Literary World Grand Academician had actually stopped a formidable hundred-marquis assault.
"This poem is excellent."
"It first describes the army's soaring might, then shows how the Human Race fights the demon barbarians by day and by night. Halberds and swords, bows and cavalry-it depicts the battlefield in detail, with the war on the ground echoing the sun, moon, and stars above. Its grandeur is overwhelming. Finally, it swears an oath: not to leave Two Worlds Mountain alive, but to serve one's lord with the resolve to die."
"Serve one's lord? I don't think we should interpret it that way. This 'lord' should refer to all the countless people beneath heaven."
"No, no, no... this 'lord' should refer to the demon barbarians. Think about how those War-Poem Cavalry turn into weapons to attack the enemy after they die, taking vengeance on the demon barbarians beyond death. That's why it says, 'Only in death shall I repay you.'"
"That sort of joke is fine in passing, but we can't take it seriously. Still... killing demon barbarians even after death, serving all the people of the Human Race-that explains the line even better."
"What powerful War Poetry. Look, only five or six of the original hundred marquises remain, while nearly a thousand of