In the smoke of battle, the surviving warriors started striking their shields with warhammers, the steel symphony of the Steel Bone Butcher and the plasma hum of the Ironfist Ambassador weaving into an ancient rhythm. Bach'er bent down to pick up a half-bloodstained orange-red shoulder armor, the Ring of Punishment symbol on it was seeping blood—exactly like the one shattered forty years ago when Ouyi took a poison blade cannon shot for him.
"Will the reinforcements inherit this?" He wiped the blood from the metal fragment. Ouyi came over and tore open the damaged neck armor, revealing a fierce glacier crack tattoo beneath—each Ironfist warrior brands this mark at the same spot when they rise to veterans.
