Volume 3: Global Vanguard & The Advanced Pinnacle
The midday sunlight blazed down, draping a brilliant coat of liquid gold over the ancient granite flagstones of Vermilion Bird Square. A roaring, thunderous wave of festival music saturated the air. Scarlet banners snapped fiercely in the morning gale, blending seamlessly with the deafening, thunder-like cheers of over three hundred thousand soldiers and citizens of the Ancient Capital.
Upon the dais of honor, constructed entirely from monolithic white marble, Lin Feng stood straight and motionless at the very center. His pitch-black magic Major-General’s uniform, trimmed with shimmering golden threads, tightly embraced his tall, imposing physique. The broad, unyielding line of his shoulders and the glistening Military Merit Cross pinned to his chest only served to elevate his peerless, awe-inspiring aura—resembling an unshakeable ancient peak standing proudly between heaven and earth. Right beside him, Commander Lu Chuan and a cohort of high-ranking generals from the Ancient Capital Military Region beamed with boundless, swelling pride.
At the base of the platform, three hundred thousand citizens and magical troops gazed up at the young man with burning, fanatical reverence. To them, this twenty-year-old youth was no ordinary newly commissioned general; he was the living guardian deity who had personally plunged into the jaws of the Slaughter Abyss, single-handedly turning the tides of fate and dragging an ancient metropolis back from the very brink of annihilation into the light.