General Huo pulled back on his blood-rhino’s iron chains, his heavy black armor clanking like a collapsing scrapyard as he glared down at the golden highway.
Behind him, one hundred thousand troops of the First Supreme Heaven’s Border Garrison stood shoulder to shoulder across the outer plain. Their leveled spears formed a bristling forest of cold steel under the pale celestial clouds.
“You’ve caused enough chaos today, lower-realm bumpkins!” General Huo (Goodness: -62/100) bellowed, his voice vibrating with the brutal arrogance of a warlord who had ruled the border for five centuries. “Your illegal highway violates sixteen celestial zoning regulations, and impounding the Tax Inspectorate’s chariots is high treason! Drop your weapons, hand over your treasury, and kneel in the dust!”
Up on the sunlit deck of the Rainbow Sanctuary Highway, Lin Mo leaned against the polished jade railing with one hand in his pocket. His expression remained completely deadpan, unimpressed by the sea of glittering spears and loud posturing.
Instead of looking at General Huo’s blood-rhino, Lin Mo narrowed his eyes and swept his [Pure-Heart Eye Lv.10] across the deep ranks of the hundred-thousand-strong army.
An interesting detail popped up right away.
The eighty thousand heavy cavalrymen at the rear were General Huo’s personal cronies and mercenary thugs (Goodness: -15 to -48/100), well-fed and wearing polished black scale-mail.
