At that moment, the Calamity God Emperor Arthas headed a gathering of eminent ministers and renowned generals at the imperial city's Teleportation Formation. Among them were Uther, commander of the Knights of the Silver Hand and Great Huan's Holy Light King, Arch Grand Mage Jaina, and the dwarven king Muradin Bronzebeard. They had assembled to welcome the Great Huan Celestial Lord and his main army.
Amid a humming sound, the Teleportation Formation flared with light, and the void trembled...
The first contingent of the army sent to conquer the United States Region arrived.
The Great Huan Celestial Lord Xiao Ying stood at their head, with the Mending-Heaven Immortal Empress Yu Ji and the Skybow Fragrant Empress Sun Shangxiang on either side. Behind him stood Princess Dieyi, Xiao Dieyi, the commanders of the four Hero Legions, the twelve Protector Witch Kings, and other great generals. The largest group consisted of commanders of all ranks and elite soldiers from the Great Huan Forbidden Guard. Altogether, they numbered roughly eight thousand.
The Ravenous Wolf Guards and Huan Martial Guards of the Great Huan Forbidden Guard had originally been assisting the eldest prince, Lü Fengxian, on the main battlefield of the northern grasslands. Once the strategy of fighting by faction had been settled, full responsibility for the northern front had passed to the Spring and Autumn Lü Clan. Naturally, the Great Huan Forbidden Guard had been swiftly recalled to accompany the Great Huan Celestial Lord Xiao Ying on his campaign across the ocean.
It was worth mentioning that, for this campaign led personally by the Great Huan Celestial Lord, all Great Huan armies apart from those of the Calamity Dynasty had used Super Teleportation Formations to cross the ocean directly to their bridgehead in the United States Region-the Calamity Dynasty.
This showed the importance