Hearing Fei Xin's words, Mu Yun's expression grew grave.
In the
If the Star Ring Guild came at them in full force, this battle would be far more daunting than they had imagined.
Just as Fei Xin and Mu Yun were dispatching guild members to positions along the town's walls and activating the defensive magic array that enveloped all of Creek Moon Town, the Star Ring Guild in the distance began to slowly deploy its formation, opening up a series of narrow lanes.
Through those lanes, one massive heavy crossbow after another was wheeled into view. The sight made both Fei Xin and Mu Yun, who had been busy working atop the walls, freeze in their tracks.
It wasn't just the two of them—every Hundred Flowers Palace member on the wall stood staring in stunned silence.
The Star Ring Guild had rolled out well over a hundred of these massive heavy crossbows…
Even if they had never witnessed the power of such weapons firsthand, one look at the enormous iron bolts mounted on the crossbows made it abundantly clear that their destructive force was nothing to scoff at.
Each iron bolt was inscribed with crimson magic runes, and the ambient mana in the surroundings was being drawn toward them involuntarily. Just observing the sheer amount of mana being siphoned was enough to understand that the power output was at least Tier Three—meaning each bolt would be no weaker than a cannon shell from a turret.
And Creek Moon Town had only built eight turrets.
If over a hundred heavy crossbows fired at once…
"So this is why they weren't in any hurry to attack?" Fei Xin stared at the deployed crossbows, her face an expression of indescribable coldness.
She had thought that their Hundred Flowers Palace might still put up some measure of resistance against a superpower. But now, looking at over a hundred heavy crossbows, she realized how laughable that notion was.
"So this is what the Star Ring Guild is?"
"You've got to be kidding! How are we supposed to defend against this?"
The last shred of fighting spirit among the Hundred Flowers Palace members on the walls evaporated the moment the heavy crossbows appeared, replaced entirely by fear and despair.
Being outnumbered was one thing—but to be so vastly outmatched in siege weaponry as well? How were they supposed to fight?
In the face of so many heavy crossbows, forget lasting three hours—they probably couldn't even hold out for ten or twenty minutes.
Inside Creek Moon Town, all the players were thrown into a frenzy by this jaw-dropping sight. Spies from various major guilds hiding within the town were frantically relaying the news outward.
Three hundred thousand elite troops were a formidable fighting force for any guild, but they were not invincible.
With the advantage of defending a fortified position, around a hundred thousand troops could actually hold them off with relative ease.
But over a hundred heavy crossbows were a different matter entirely. With the town's current defenses, there was simply no way to withstand them—not even the major superpowers could claim otherwise. This meant that wherever the Star Ring Guild set its sights in the open field, that town would fall. The hope that guilds could use town defenses to trade blows with Star Ring and carve out survival space had become nothing but a pipe dream.
The moment the news spread, it sent shockwaves through every faction in the entire
"How can this be?" Undying Warheart frowned deeply as he looked at the intelligence his subordinates had just delivered. "When did the Star Ring Guild manage to acquire so many heavy crossbows?"