In the early morning three days later, forty-three carriages waited quietly outside the Demon Hunt Squad villas.
Most of the carriages bore numbers: four soldier grade, ten general grade, twenty-two marshal rank, and four king rank. The remaining three carriages had no numbers.
Those three carriages stood at the very front.
Forty-three Demon Hunt Squads were taking part in this War Mission together. Such a gathering was quite rare within the Temple Alliance.
The forty-three Demon Hunt Squads numbered more than two hundred of the Alliance's elite. As Demon Hunt Squad members, they were all seasoned fighters who had braved life and death against the Demon Race.
From the fourth to the ninth order, they were outstanding among their peers, the pillars of the Alliance.
Along with the other Demon Hunt Squad members, the General Grade No. 21 Demon Hunt Squad found their assigned carriage, boarded it, and quietly waited to depart.
Even now, they did not know the details of this War Mission. Of course, Jiang Feng remembered that this mission would take them to Zhennan Pass.
Zhennan Pass was now in grave danger. Without the timely arrival of reinforcements from the Six Great Temples, it would likely have been destroyed.
Accompanying the forty-three Demon Hunt Squads was a contingent of elite troops directly under the Temple Alliance. Although they numbered only around five thousand, their strength was beyond question.
The Knight Temple's reinforcements were the strongest: a hundred-member Temple Knight Order commanded directly by Holy Knight Commander Han Ci, consisting entirely of Temple Knights of the seventh order or above.
More astonishing still, all one hundred of those seventh-order Temple Knights were Mithril Base Knights, the true core elite of the Knight Temple.
That alone showed how enormous a crisis Zhennan Pass faced.
Han Ci, the Knight Temple's