There was a huge space in front of him. An army of black soldiers stood neatly in lines in that open space; there were more than a hundred thousand soldiers in blood-red metal armor. Those bloodthirsty soldiers held black metal long sabers in their hands.
Uh... Why was there a large army in the secret underground passage?
Chester was shocked; he was utterly stunned.
Soon, Chester snapped back into his senses and noticed that something was wrong.
The soldiers were riding on black horses. They were in a neat line, but they were completely motionless, like sculptures. Each of those soldiers was very burly, but their faces were dead gray. They were obviously dead. It had been a long time, but their bodies showed no signs of decay as if they could come back to life at any time.
There was a huge stone platform in front of the huge army. There was also a tiger charm and a scroll with archaic texts on it.
Chester walked forward, unfurled the scroll, and read the words on it slowly. "My name is Joshae Stardew, Dawu Zhou's black-armored admiral..."
'Dawu Zhou?'
Chester was puzzled; he felt his brain buzzing.
Chester was familiar with ancient books and once read a historical document about the South Cloud World. He remembered that a Dawu Zhou Dynasty had ruled the South Cloud World for nearly a thousand years before the ruling South Cloud World Royal's era. The Dawu Zhou Dynasty had established a mysterious black-armored rider army called the Blood Buddha. The Blood Buddha was brave and invincible, and their leader was an admiral.
Later, the Dawu Zhou Dynasty fell, and the Blood Buddha army also went missing mysteriously.
Was that the renowned Blood Buddha army in front of him?
Chester looked at the archaic text and continued to read it. "Recently, I heard of Long's rebellion. I led the soldiers and rushed to the borders to support the royal city. While we were resting, the spies from the Long army ambushed us. Every single soldier from our 180,000-strong army was poisoned. We died with regrets..."
"After Long's rebels seized the throne, all the soldiers were buried in the ground to avoid exposure to their scandal. We have failed the Emperor, and we have died in anger. We will never forget about this grievance. We shall wait for the day we see the sun again..."
Chester's heart quivered. For a long time, he found it difficult to calm down.
No wonder there were very few ancient books about the black-armored rider army in historical records. It turned out that when the Dawu Zhou Dynasty had been destroyed, the enemy had poisoned the Blood Buddha army to death via despicable means. Then, they were all buried.
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