"So they weren't that strong after all!"
The trembling Door Gods looked at their steel whips, then at the scattered ashes, and immediately stopped shaking.
Just now, when they saw a dense mass of ghosts and monsters sweeping toward them, they had thought of the ghost tide that day.
They had been terrified and afraid.
So they had hidden behind the gates to carry out their duties as Door Gods.
They had thought they would have to die again today, but they had survived instead.
Ahem!
The Door Gods exchanged glances, puffed out their chests, sucked in their bellies, and coughed with their noses in the air.
Outside the gates, a group of ghosts and monsters heard the coughing and immediately rejoiced. "Open the gates!"
They pushed, but the gates would not budge.
"Huh?"
"What's going on?"
At that moment, some ghosts and monsters also vaulted over the walls.
The moment they landed, they saw the Door Gods bring their steel whips down on them.
In an instant, the blows reduced them to drifting ash and smoke.
Just then, crows cawed noisily.
In the darkness, the general of the Army of Survival Seekers frowned. "Looks like sneaking in quietly is impossible."
"Then... we'll storm our way in."
"Where are my ten great war generals?"
"Here!"
Amid the black smoke, ten bull-headed giants, fifty to sixty meters tall, emerged with hideous faces and murderous auras soaring skyward.
"Go, open a passage and let the army in!"
"Make a grand show of it!"
"Let outsiders know that our Army of Survival Seekers is an upright and honorable army of justice."
The bull-headed giants scratched their heads. "General, we're disregarding martial honor, launching a sneak attack, and ganging up on the few. Does that still count as an army of justice?"
The general