Above the City Lord's Mansion in Ancient Rock City, as Shi Feng swept the Devil King's Horn in his hand, the pitch-black magic array enveloping the entire mansion blazed with blinding radiance. Mountain-sized boulders came crashing down, one after another.
Compared to the last time Shi Feng had used the fifth-tier Hell Meteor, this time there was no protective magic array to shield anyone. Everyone could clearly feel a wave of scorching heat washing over them.
Burning meteors plummeted one after another, slamming viciously into the defensive magic array of the City Lord's Mansion.
Each collision sent thunderous shockwaves echoing across all of Ancient Rock City. With every impact, cracks began spreading across the defensive array, growing wider and wider. No matter how fast the array tried to repair itself, it couldn't keep up with the rate of damage.
"No! The City Lord's Mansion's defensive array is stronger—it has to hold!" Yi Xiao Du Zang stared fixedly at the cracks forming in the array above the mansion, silently praying.
The City Lord's Mansion was the core of the entire city. During its construction, its defensive measures had been built to a higher standard than anywhere else—and this was precisely why he'd been confident he could hold Ancient Rock City against the major superpowers.
But barely had a sliver of hope ignited in Yi Xiao Du Zang's heart when reality slapped him hard across the face.
Under the relentless bombardment of the Hell Meteor, the mansion's defensive array developed more and more cracks until they spread across its entire surface. Then, with a thunderous crack, the semi-transparent defensive array shattered like a broken mirror…
"This…"
"You're kidding, right?! Who the hell is that guy?! He broke through both of Ancient Rock City's defensive arrays?!"
"That's impossible! That's the City Lord's Mansion's defensive array—even if several Legendary monsters attacked it, it would take them ages. What kind of spell is he using?!"
Everyone stared at the vanished defensive array in stunned silence, unable to form a single word. Even the members of the Heavenly Burial guild forgot to keep attacking Shi Feng, their eyes glued blankly to the mansion.
They simply couldn't believe that even the City Lord's Mansion's defensive array hadn't held.
What they didn't know was that the strike Shi Feng had unleashed with the Devil King's Horn carried the full power a Devil King had accumulated over its lifetime—a blow at the absolute peak of the fifth tier.
A normal city's defensive magic array could handle third-tier spells without breaking a sweat. Even against fourth-tier spells, the attack merely exceeded the array's normal operating range without surpassing its absolute ceiling—it just burned through more energy, meaning the array might not hold for long.
But the spell channeled through the Devil King's Horn was fifth-tier, completely blowing past the array's absolute ceiling. Piercing through the defensive array was effortless—and that applied even to a city like Zero Wing City, which ran on special energy sources.
Once an array's ceiling was exceeded, energy consumption skyrocketed geometrically. Holding was simply out of the question.
This was exactly why in the Divine Realm, whenever a player reached the fifth tier, the major guilds threw grand celebrations. It wasn't just because a peak fifth-tier powerhouse could dominate an entire region—it also meant that a single individual now possessed the power to batter apart an ordinary city's defensive array, turning siege warfare into something easily resolved instead of a drawn-out slog.
As the defensive array above the City Lord's Mansion shattered, the fifth-tier Hell Meteor still hadn't finished its barrage. Burning meteors continued to pound into the mansion's stone walls, blasting hole after hole through them—even with the divine runes reinforcing the structure. The bombardment went on for several seconds before finally ceasing, leaving the City Lord's Mansion in ruins, battered beyond recognition.
"Truly worthy of being a top-tier fifth-tier mass destruction spell—the power really is something else!" Shi Feng gazed at the devastated mansion and couldn't help but click his tongue.
He'd originally thought that using the Devil King's Horn to destroy the defensive array would already be an impressive result. But now it seemed he'd still underestimated its power.
However, the Devil King's Horn could only be used twice from start to finish.
After those two uses, the Devil King's Horn in Shi Feng's hand began to gradually disintegrate, turning into sand that scattered and vanished before everyone's eyes.
"Die! He has to die! I want him erased from the entire Divine Realm!" Yi Xiao Du Zang's eyes had gone blood red. He seethed with fury at Shi Feng hovering in midair—if Shi Feng had been standing before him right then, he would have torn him apart and devoured him down to the last bone.
Originally, the Heavenly Burial guild could have relied on the City Lord's Mansion's defensive array to fend off the major superpowers charging in. But now that the mansion's array had shattered, it meant the last barrier protecting Ancient Rock City had been completely destroyed.