Apart from the Sphinx Legion, which tacitly held the leading position, the African Coalition Army's vanguard consisted of the lowest-ranking Savage Legion and Mummy Legion.
The Savage Legion, as its name suggested, was a legion of savages. Its soldiers were not actual savages, of course, but African natives clad in crude animal hides, their bodies marked with strange patterns, carrying wooden clubs, long stones, stone knives, stone axes, and the like. They looked like the most primitive army imaginable. But anyone who truly treated them as a primitive army would die a miserable death. Those crude wooden clubs, long stones, stone knives, and stone axes were no weaker than finely crafted metal weapons. The patterns on their bodies amplified their strength with mysterious powers, and they also possessed group-enhancement abilities similar to the Witch Clan's Totem Pillars. Their fanatical fighting spirit, as fearless of death as that of zealous believers, made them exceedingly difficult opponents!
The Mummy Legion was a specialty of the Ancient Egyptian Civilization, a rather unusual troop type, yet also its most widespread and lowest-ranking one. Their abilities and varieties were strange beyond imagining: insect mummies, sand mummies, stone mummies, iron mummies, wind-and-cloud mummies, flame mummies, curse mummies, mummy kings, and countless others. What they shared was that their bodies were wrapped in thick burial cloth, keeping them within the category of mummies.
Naturally, these different varieties of mummies represented the Ancient Egyptian Civilization's various cultivation methods. They were not monsters, but humans who had cultivated into these forms.
Judging by appearances alone, however, scarcely anything resembling a normal human could be found among the low- and middle-ranking African troops. The higher their rank, the more they resembled ordinary people, such as priests and pharaohs.
By the time the African Coalition Army arrived, the fighting between