Outside Silverwing Town, as the red-and-white pillar of light gradually faded, the entire battlefield—whether the players within Silverwing Town or the charging Sacred Sculpture monsters—fell into a profound silence, as if time itself had stopped, leaving behind nothing but dissipating radiance and fractured void.
A single strike!
A space with a radius of three hundred yards had been reduced to nothingness, and within that void, only the High Grand Lord-grade Sacred Sculpture Annihilator and the Legendary-grade Sacred Sculpture Devourers still lived. Nearly ten thousand Sacred Sculpture Vandalizers had been completely wiped out—the sheer destructive power was nothing short of unbelievable...
As for the surviving Sacred Sculpture Annihilator and Sacred Sculpture Devourers, they were clearly in critical condition. Only the Sacred Sculpture Devourers could still move faintly, desperately struggling to claw their way out of the void. The High Grand Lord-grade Sacred Sculpture Annihilator couldn't budge even half a step, forced to watch helplessly as the void slowly closed, ultimately to be banished into it forever to await death...
"This..."
Huan Yu and Bumie Zhanxin stared at the scene, momentarily at a loss for words, their eyes filled with indescribable shock and excitement.
That was devastating!
On top of banishing nearly a thousand Sacred Sculpture Annihilators, three Sacred Sculpture Devourers had been critically wounded in one blow. Their defensive pressure had just been reduced by a significant margin.
Meanwhile, the members of the Sacred Hand, stationed in the woods several thousand yards from Silverwing Town, gazed at the scene through their magical water mirrors and were equally stunned.
They hadn't expected the magic tower of Silverwing Town to pack this kind of punch—enough to critically wound Sacred Sculpture Devourers.
"All it did was banish a few thousand Sacred Sculpture Annihilators and critically wound three Sacred Sculpture Devourers. The battle has only just begun, and it's still far too early!" Qian Yan looked at the elated faces throughout Silverwing Town and scoffed dismissively.
In a siege, it was perfectly normal for war weapons to inflict large-scale damage. The magic tower's strike was merely a bit stronger than they had anticipated—it couldn't possibly affect the overall outcome of the war.
Ten thousand Sacred Sculpture monsters were a drop in the bucket compared to an army of over four million, not to mention the magic tower's cooldown was far from short. By the time it fired again, the Sacred Sculpture army would already be at the gates of Silverwing Town.
Sure enough, the Sacred Sculpture army, struck by the magic tower, had flown into a frenzy. One furious roar after another erupted from the Sacred Sculpture Devourers, and the rest of the Sacred Sculpture monsters charged toward Silverwing Town as if maddened, their speed increasing by twenty to thirty percent.
On the walls of Silverwing Town, everyone tensed up as they faced the even more formidable Sacred Sculpture army.
The magic tower's strike had been astonishing, but what was even more shocking and overwhelming was watching the crater blasted into the ground instantly filled back in—as if the previous strike had never happened at all...
"All crossbow carts, arrow towers, and cannon towers, prepare! Aim for the densest clusters of monsters!"
Facing the Sacred Sculpture army surging ever closer with a mightier aura than before, Bumie Zhanxin, who had commanded dozens of large-scale battles, was the first to roar out orders, snapping the Silverwing Town defenders out of their earlier fear. Everyone scrambled to ready their attacks.
"All spellcaster units, begin chanting! Remember—do not let any Sacred Sculpture Annihilators get close to the walls!"
Huan Yu, stationed farther back, recovered her composure as well, commanding the ranged spellcaster players on the walls to prepare their castings while she herself began chanting a third-tier forbidden spell.
As command after command was issued, the tense and terrified defenders of Silverwing Town gradually steadied their emotions.
The Sacred Sculpture army drew ever closer.
Thirteen hundred yards... twelve hundred yards... one thousand yards...
"Fire!" Bumie Zhanxin bellowed.
Hundreds of siege carts and dozens of arrow towers and cannon towers erupted simultaneously in a chorus of deafening blasts.
Hundreds of blazing trails of fire arced through the sky like meteors, slamming into the ground. The earth shuddered, dust and debris erupted skyward, and tens of thousands of Sacred Sculpture monsters were flung into the air. The ground was cratered into one massive pit after another—the spectacle was something not even an epic masterpiece could capture.
Yet in the next instant, the craters torn open by arrows and cannonballs were swallowed up once more by the endless tide of Sacred Sculpture monsters. Their maddened advance far exceeded everyone's imagination...
"Reload arrows and ammunition! Prioritize the front ranks of the Sacred Sculpture army!" Bumie Zhanxin's brow furrowed deeply as he watched the scene, bellowing again.
Though he had long known this would be the result, actually witnessing it still sent a chill of dread through him.
After several more rounds of bombardment, not a single Sacred Sculpture Annihilator had fallen, but the Sacred Sculpture Vandalizers had suffered considerable casualties. The number of critically wounded Vandalizers exceeded two hundred thousand—yet compared to an army of over four million, it was barely a scratch...
Seeing the first wave of Sacred Sculpture monsters close to within a hundred yards of Silverwing's walls, Huan Yu and the other spellcasters unleashed their most powerful magic and skills in unison.
Tens of thousands of players' spells and abilities hammered into the charging Sacred Sculpture monsters.