He climbed onto the city wall.
The battered banner, with the Empire's trident emblem stained in blood and fire, fluttered wildly in the grey, foggy wind.
In the solemn atmosphere, people gazed into the distance, where they could faintly see a dense mass of red dots speeding towards them through the sea of fog, shaking the island forest.
Through the images displayed by the sentinels' Spiritual Artifacts, they could see that the Evil Clan, as if answering some call, was emerging from all parts of the forest and converging toward White Emperor City in an unending stream—more than five thousand of them!
But Xia Feng keenly sensed that these creatures were not Evil Beasts but rather something like Half-Evil transformed humans—
Due to their failed transformation into stable Evils, and having not reached the point of explosive demise, they had become wild beasts that were neither human nor fully Evil.