The sun had just risen, draping the North American Great Plains in a hazy, dreamlike mantle of gentle light. Through the mist of early morning, the emerald grasslands looked mysterious and graceful.
Yet the rising sun carried the dark red glow of dawn, staining the horizon crimson like a Golden Crow spreading blood-colored wings, about to descend upon the earth.
Kansas Royal City was an enormous city formed from nearly a hundred large Hero Bases. Foundations and fortifications had subsequently been built, and the various Hero Bases had become specialized buildings and encampments for the different factions, creating a major frontier stronghold of the Calamity Dynasty.
Because the terrain outside the city was an unbroken plain, anyone looking out from the walls could already see the vast enemy army advancing along the distant horizon. It resembled a beast tide sweeping across heaven and earth, leaving those within Kansas Royal City with none of dawn's warmth, only the bitter chill of darkest night.
Even from hundreds of miles away, that dark silhouette stretched boundlessly across the horizon from left to right. The sheer scale of the enemy formations and the immensity of their military strength were easy to imagine.
At that moment, Xiao Ying, Yu Ji, Sun Shangxiang, Hua Qiandai, Arthas, and the other principal commanders had gathered on the walls, gazing at the slowly approaching enemy. Even at this distance, they could feel its oceanlike might and icy murderous aura.
When Sea God Emperor Atlas arrived, he honored his agreement and presented the purported supreme scripture of the Atlantis Civilization and the cultivation of the soul domain... the Atlas Codex.
Xiao Ying accepted without any polite refusals and began leafing through it on the spot, ignoring the vast enemy army that had already appeared on the horizon.
The Atlas Codex