Black Domain Continent, Cinder Earth Canyon.
The great battle had ended. Shadowy black fog slowly dispersed over the scorched earth, and winds mingled with the aura of death howled through the canyon, sweeping up scattered bone fragments.
The mountainous heaps of Devouring Race corpses had vanished as well.
The slain Devouring Race warriors had become the players' sacrificial power and Evolution Points, while the Devouring Race remains left from the fighting against the Dragonwing Race had also been taken away when the Player Legion withdrew.
Anything useful was listed in bulk on the Trading House; anything with no apparent use was offered through Sacrifice Emperor Zhao.
The three United Warbands that had crossed worlds reaped rich rewards from this battle.
Besides the gains from their kills, they had also obtained a great deal of loot.
Weapons, equipment, and war items, for example.
The battlefield was a wreck after the battle, covered in trenches of varying depths, with cracks crawling across the earth like earthworms.
Energy shock waves had sheared away half the cliffs on either side of the canyon, leaving the exposed rock layers scorched black.
The stone bridge the Dragonwing Race had built across the canyon had collapsed and shattered. Its broken span jutted diagonally into the murky bloodwater, its deck covered in cracks and the corrosive marks of shadow energy.
Beyond the canyon lay Dragon Court City.
The city walls, once shielded with dragon scales and founded on dragon crystals, bore hideous wounds.
A breach nearly a hundred meters wide had been torn into the eastern wall. Shattered dragon scales mingled with Dragonwing warriors' blood, scattered over the open ground outside the city.
Of the dragon banner atop the gate tower, only half a charred flagpole remained, jutting crookedly from the ruins and swaying with mournful creaks in