The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Accompanied by the Frost Phoenix, the Queen's procession had descended to an altitude of three hundred meters. At this height, normal humans couldn't see clearly, but Ada's vision was perfectly capable. When Veronica appeared on the viewing platform, the Adas immediately erupted into cheers, chanting the names of Isha and Kurnous, praying with their loudest voices.

Veronica then raised her hand, summoning the Heart of Avalon.

"May the light of the Mother Goddess forever protect her children!"

With a gentle wave of her arm, rays of light streaked across the sky, descending as fine rain. The Adas below knelt and prayed, feeling the Mother Goddess's loving tears.

At the same time, all the plants in the city swayed and flourished.

Thus, Veronica inspected eighteen cities in a row, as well as the Isha and Kurnous temples—these two temples still had priests, but they no longer possessed any substantial power, only retaining the function of holding rituals.

During the inspection, Sorsaryan also carefully observed the local living conditions. Although they possessed very good spirit bone craftsmanship, it was mainly used for architecture and living facilities. The advanced equipment commonly seen in the arks was rare, including transportation. They mainly used airships and some two-legged walking tools similar to Wraithknights. High-end things like warplanes or anti-gravity motorcycles were also scarce. There was a strange technological deficiency. Sorsaryan guessed this was probably done by Aenivia—to lock down the country, and thus also block some technologies that might make people "restless."

It was obvious that the Heroth Kingdom had a very serious deficiency in engine technology, unable to build ships or aircraft to leave the planet, including webway technology. This also led to a small number of webway gates here. The Bonesingers probably didn't have the technology to build webway arches.

Thinking carefully, Aenivia's thinking was a bit similar to the Emperor, selectively blocking technology to reduce the risk of instability.

However, the local people's individual weapon level was well maintained, basically at the same level as the arks, with shuriken, lasers, plasma, melta, etc., all available. However, they preferred melee weapons, and the armor style was more classical, looking thicker, even retaining the skirt armor style.

After the inspection, it was time for the final stop—the Wild Hunt Arena.

This was an island located in the ocean, with large forests and rugged, complex mountains. It was divided into two parts. One part, without forest cover, was flattened and a circular arena was built. This was where the Spirit Bone Knights competed in martial arts. The remaining part was where they competed in wisdom and strategy.

When the Eternal Queen arrived, the knight representatives of the eighteen city-states also gathered here.

"I've only seen these in ancient books. I thought they were extinct."

Looking at the towering spirit bone machines, Veronica revealed a curious gaze. Even Sorsaryan felt very novel. Before, he had only heard that the Heroth Kingdom had a unique armed force, or rather, their armed force was built around the Spirit Bone Knights, but after actually seeing them, he was shocked by their unique shape and structure.

Their height was basically between 10-15 meters, similar to the Imperial Knights. They also used leg structures for movement. The overall shape was somewhat similar to Wraith constructs, mainly slender and elegant. However, their helmets and shells were more fancy, with many decorative things, which was quite similar to the Imperial Knights.

They marched into the magnificent arena in groups, hanging the flags of the city-states and families, holding flags in their hands, and passing in a parade in front of the Eternal Queen and the Phoenix King.

These mechs were divided into three major types according to their structure.

The first type was a very standard humanoid, a bit similar to Titans, like an Ada magnified many times. Long and thin legs supported a slender and well-proportioned torso. The head looked like a Path Warrior wearing a helmet. The two arms could very flexibly equip various weapons. This type of knight was also called a Woodland Knight, the most common type of Spirit Bone Knight. Their height was also the highest of all knight models.

The second type of knight was very unique. Its upper body was humanoid, but its lower body was a four-legged form similar to herbivores. They looked very powerful and fast. Additional armor was added to the torso, and they were basically equipped with a crystal spear similar to a melee weapon. They obviously played the role of charging into battle. It also had a very localized name—Giant Elk Knight, a name derived from a unique native beast of Heroth.

The third type of knight was the rarest, but also the most gorgeous. They had relatively thick legs, a torso protected by extra armor, and the head was generally carved into the shape of a phoenix. In addition to their arms, they also had two additional sets of ranged weapons behind their shoulders, making their configuration more flexible and their firepower more powerful. This type of knight was also only equipped by experienced and leadership ranks, and was called a War Dancer.

(This thing is really not made up by old Mo)

".Spirit Bone Knights are different from Imperial Knights. They are not formed in family units. However, due to historical reasons, some ancient warrior classes have long held knight status. The rest are selected from all levels of the city-states, but this is limited to the first two types of knights. Generally speaking, to be promoted to War Dancer, one must perform very well in the Wild Hunt Arena."

"Your Majesty, I have a document for you to review."

When Sorsaryan, who was already seated on the main viewing platform of the Wild Hunt Arena, was explaining the details of the knights to Veronica, Dorar walked behind Sorsaryan's throne and handed over a detailed document. Sorsaryan took it and handed it to Veronica on the side.

Veronica took it and looked at it twice, then said in surprise:

"21 knight orders? So many? I thought there was only one for each city-state."

No mistake, one first one hair one inside one capacity one in see!

"There is one for each city-state. The three extra ones include the Kurnous Touring Knight Order, which belongs to the religious knights and generally patrols between the Kurnous shrines in various places. The other is the Ranger Knight Order, the first knight order of Heroth, which belongs to the folk spontaneously formed chivalrous knights. It has a long history, but its scale has always been relatively small. The last one is the Holy Land Knight Order, which mainly guards the armed forces of Phoenix Ice Peak. It is also the most powerful knight order. Its members are elite knights from the eighteen city-states, but the personnel are not fixed and are generally rotated regularly, so it is not considered a permanent knight order."

"I see, um... If you don't count those three, the knight orders of the eighteen city-states, the largest is... the knight order of Torgoven City, actually has more than five hundred knights. But this city doesn't seem to be the largest?"

"Yes, Torgoven City's population and scale can only be ranked sixth, but they have the largest number of craftsmen and Bonesingers, and there are several large-scale mines within their territory, so they are also the largest weapon and equipment production site in Heroth."

"The second is Kavaroque, um, it's also about five hundred, which is about right, after all, Kavaroque is the largest city-state, but their number of apprentice knights is huge, twice as many as Torgoven."