CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
The colossal iron hooves slammed down upon the thick ebony planks, emitting a series of muffled roars like thunder ripping through the air.
It was the legions of massive Saber-toothed Beasts, bearing the warriors of the Byron Corps, charging at astonishing speed up the battlements!
ROAR! KILL! KILL! KILL!
What followed was the frenzied bellowing of the Saber-toothed Beasts! The bloodthirsty war cries of the Byron warriors! Everything unfolded with breathtaking swiftness!
This incredible method of seizing the ramparts utterly defied common comprehension.
Yes, the entire assault mirrored nothing less than a full-scale cavalry charge across open plains!
The towering twenty-meter-high city walls were conquered by colossal siege ladders, fifty meters long and twenty meters wide, transforming the vertical barrier into a single, sloping ramp leading upward.
In the blink of an eye, the Saber-Dragon Knights poured over the walls via dozens of these gigantic ladders!
Slaughter erupted!
The formidable battlements were easily over ten meters thick! This breadth provided ample maneuvering space for the Saber-toothed Beasts to slash, rear, and rampage back and forth.
The gigantic iron hooves mercilessly trampled the soldiers of the Mancity garrison on the wall!
A Saber-toothed Beast stood three meters high, seven meters long, weighing a solid three tons. If one included its thick, trailing tail, its total length reached an astonishing ten meters!
In the face of such overwhelmingly immense, peerless beasts, even the most powerfully built soldier was no more than a scurrying mouse, utterly incapable of resistance!
THUD! SQUELCH!
A few stomps were all it took! The Mancity defenders on the wall immediately broke into disarray!
Like massive trucks careening onto a pedestrian walkway, every defender struck by the beasts was flung a considerable distance without exception.
But far worse was the fate of those caught directly under the Saber-toothed Beast's enormous iron hooves! They were instantly rendered into a paste, smeared flat against the blue-grey paving stones of the wall, much like roadkill flattened by a steamroller.
Muddled masses of red and white, ghastly and smeared, were a shocking sight!
Screams! The crisp crack of snapping bones! The satisfied, frenzied roars of the Saber-toothed Beasts! And the exhilarated battle cries of the Byron warriors! Beneath the gloomy sky, these sounds coalesced into a single, ghastly dance of death!
The entire world, at that moment, had devolved into a terrifying vision of the underworld!
Indeed!
This was the Saber-toothed Beast! This was the Saber-Dragon Knight—the most terrifying engine of slaughter within the conventional ranks of the Mafa Continent!
Everything felt like the most hideous, visceral nightmare made real; even witnessing it firsthand, the Mancity defenders could not believe their eyes!
Some stood paralyzed, gaping dumbly as the massive iron hooves of the Saber-toothed Beasts descended upon them, too stunned even to flinch or cry out!
But the majority were seized by sheer terror, recoiling backward in droves!
Many soldiers, unable to bear the sight, hurled themselves from the twenty-meter-high ramparts, shattering into bloody pancakes below!
In mere heartbeats! The Mancity defenders on the wall were utterly shattered and swept away!
"Agh!" Mo Luo Yinfeng could scarcely trust his vision, yet years of constant warfare had forged an iron will and nerves of steel within him.
"Teng Snake War Generals, intercept the Saber-Dragon Knights!" Mo Luo Yinfeng roared. "All conventional units, withdraw immediately. Fall back to the second defensive line on the wall."
"Yes!" Guarding Mo Luo Yinfeng were the four heavily armed War Generals originally garrisoned in Mancity: Teng Kui, Teng Shuo, Teng Ke, and Teng Chong!
The four vanished into blurs, plunging instantly into the midst of those hundreds of colossal shapes!
Four streaks of golden light, like phantoms, flickered with impossible speed between the countless massive figures!
ROAR! SQUELCH!
Where the light flashed, blood mist erupted. The massive heads of the Saber-toothed Beasts, and the Saber-Dragon Knights mounted upon them, were instantaneously pierced by these four impossibly swift beams!
Innumerable giant heads, and the torsos of Byron warriors cleaved in two, were flung skyward before raining down around the area!
On an open plain, facing a high-speed charge by the Saber-Dragon Knights, even the Heavenly Demon Warriors dared not meet them head-on. But here, on the narrow confines of the wall, the limited space utterly suppressed the terrifying speed and momentum of the Saber-toothed Beasts!
While such beasts might easily crush a warrior at the peak of the Red Moon realm here, they found their attacks largely ineffective against the astonishing speed and formidable strength of the Heavily Armed War Generals!
In an instant, the four Teng Snake Generals had cut down hundreds of the Saber-Dragon Knights who had just reached the wall!
Gigantic corpses piled up, nearly choking every corner of the battlements!
The astonishing combat prowess displayed by the Heavily Armed Generals instantly galvanized the Mancity forces, who had been teetering on the brink of collapse!
"Those are the Heavily Armed Generals of the Teng Snake Legion," Yin He muttered anxiously, watching the great swaths of Saber-Dragon Knights fall in moments on the wall.
"Leave it to me." It seemed my time to act had arrived.
Mid-army of the Black Flag Legion, Byron Corps!
Watching the four golden figures weaving and dancing atop the wall, Yin Shuang clenched his fists tightly. "Damn it, those are the Heavily Armed Generals of the Teng Snake Legion."
"This situation is not good," Yin Hui fretted. "We only have ten Heavy Generals plus the Marshal, totaling eleven. Mancity has the eight Great War Generals of Lei Yan, plus Mo Luo Yinfeng, and those four Teng Snake Generals, making thirteen—a deficit of three. Those three on the wall are enough to completely neutralize our Saber-Dragon Knights."
"The Marshal will certainly have a plan," Yin Shuang replied instinctively, his gaze drawn toward that single, immense white silhouette!
At almost the exact same moment!
ROAR! ROAR!
Earth-shattering roars erupted, nearly drowning out every other shout and cry on the battlefield!
It felt as though every chest was struck by a massive sledgehammer! Those nearby were violently convulsed, coughing up blood and dying on the spot!
The gigantic white silhouette flashed into existence! No one could truly describe the speed—a blurred afterimage, moving like lightning, it shot up the massive siege ladder and then seemed to vanish into thin air!
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! Four blinding beams of light materialized, like sudden phantoms appearing from the void, striking directly in front of Teng Chong and Teng Ke!
Accompanying them was a murderous aura, violent and savage as a tidal wave of chaos!
"Ah! It's the Nine Luminaries Divine Truth!"
As Heavenly Rainbow Arcane Masters, Teng Chong and Teng Ke had been bracing themselves for the Nine Luminaries Divine Truth! But his astonishing speed far exceeded their expectations! They hadn't even perceived how he had closed the two-hundred-meter gap to reach the wall!
However, Teng Chong and Teng Ke were veterans of countless battles, Heavenly Rainbow Arcane Masters through and through!
Relying on razor-sharp intuition and the Eye of Death Lust, they channeled their magic to erect protective shields while simultaneously charging without hesitation toward Mo Luo Yinfeng!
Yes, the only viable recourse was to flee toward Mo Luo Yinfeng, the closest point of safety!
Facing the terrifying monster that was the Nine Luminaries Divine Truth, the Heavenly Rainbow Arcane Masters possessed no genuine capacity for resistance! It was a tragic necessity.
Yet, even so, they could not evade the Dragon Shadow of the Nine Luminaries Divine Truth! Almost the instant they sprang back, they were struck in the chest by the Dragon Shadow!
THUD! THUD! RUMBLE! SQUELCH!
Within a brilliant flash of light, a dull, heavy sound resonated!
Teng Chong and Teng Ke felt as if their chests had been hammered twice by a warrior wielding a Great Judgment Cudgel!
Inside their ribcages came the crisp sound of cracking bones and tearing viscera! The chaotic magical energy threatened to tear their very bodies apart!
Two plumes of bloody mist jetted skyward like twin fountains!
Fortunately, they had anticipated the danger and managed to activate their magical shields! This alone saved them from being instantly annihilated!
Though they knew the Dragon Shadow of the Nine Luminaries Divine Truth was potent, its sheer, unbelievable destructive power surpassed everyone's imaginings! Both men were instantly crippled and severely wounded!
The terrifying impact force sent them flying uncontrollably; they couldn't even clearly discern how the Nine Luminaries Divine Truth had struck or where he currently resided!
As they retreated rapidly, the scenery blurred past them. In their daze, they heard—
WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
A sharp sound of tearing air! Two beams of light, one crimson and one azure, were rapidly pursuing them as they flew helplessly through the air!
These were the final two Dragon Shadows unleashed by the Nine Luminaries Divine Truth!
Ah! Teng Chong and Teng Ke were struck by sheer terror! They were already gravely injured from the first four Dragon Shadows. The magical energy swirling violently within them due to the violent impact made it impossible to summon precise control or cast a magic shield!
Who could have imagined that after just one exchange, both would be on the verge of death at the hands of the Nine Luminaries Divine Truth!
But at that critical moment!
Another blurry sound of air being rent apart whistled violently toward them!
A huge crescent moon shape materialized almost from nowhere, slamming directly in front of their chests!
CRASH! RUMBLE!
Another blinding explosion of light, mixed with a deep, resounding boom!
The entire sky was momentarily illuminated bone-white by this flare! Amidst the hazy glare, two indistinct afterimages shot high into the sky!
It was the two Dragon Shadows pursuing Teng Chong and Teng Ke, intercepted and blasted away by this sudden, crescent sword energy!
"It's the Marshal!" Teng Chong and Teng Ke instantly knew that the one who intervened to block those two Dragon Shadows and save them was Mo Luo Yinfeng!
But before either man could catch his breath—
From the brilliant white light, a massive figure emerged!
ROAR! A terrifying bellow slammed into the two men like a thunderbolt!
Several more dazzling arcs of Blazing Fire Sword Qi shot toward them! And behind these fire arcs, the gigantic white silhouette pursued them like a falling star!
Too fast! From the initial four Dragon Shadows wounding and throwing them back, to the subsequent two in pursuit, and now the Fire Sword Qi strike—there was virtually no pause! The sequence was seamless, flowing one into the next, offering them no chance to breathe or escape!
"We're finished!" The two exclaimed in dismay!
WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Another crescent shape flashed into being in a split second, appearing from thin air and slamming with incredible speed into the violently speeding Blazing Fire Sword Qi!
CRASH! BOOM! This explosion occurred less than three meters from the two injured men!
The terrifying shockwave sent the two, who had not yet managed to land, soaring even higher and farther!
"Retreat!" In their daze, they heard Mo Luo Yinfeng’s frantic, roaring command!
Then, a golden figure instantly flashed in front of them, charging directly toward the massive white shadow that was lunging forward!
From the beginning, Mo Luo Yinfeng had been meticulously tracking the movements of the Nine Luminaries Divine Truth!
But who could have predicted that after mounting the Mammoth King Beast, the Nine Luminaries Divine Truth’s speed would become so monstrously warped? The two-hundred-meter gap was closed in the span of a single blink!
And his chosen targets were the farthest from him, Teng Chong and Teng Ke!
It happened so fast that Mo Luo Yinfeng didn't even have time to shout a warning!
Fortunately, Teng Chong and Teng Ke were quick-witted and reacted fast enough! They avoided immediate instant death!
And this bought Mo Luo Yinfeng the precious seconds needed to intervene! Otherwise, two more Heavily Armed Generals would have been instantly slain by the Nine Luminaries Divine Truth!
If that had happened, it would have been a devastating blow to the morale of the Mancity defenders!
This fiend is too terrifying! A veritable demon! But as their commanding officer, he had no other choice!
He absolutely could not allow him to continue the chase! Otherwise, Teng Chong and Teng Ke would be doomed!
A profound crescent sword energy swept out at astonishing speed toward the white silhouette that was charging headlong!
If he had a choice, Mo Luo Yinfeng would never willingly confront the Nine Luminaries Divine Truth mounted on the Mammoth King Beast. Its terrifying speed and impact force were enough to chill the bravest heart!
But now, he had no alternative!
ROAR! The charging Mammoth King Beast let out another paralyzing, suffocating roar!
"Get out of the way!" Mixed with the earth-shaking beast roar came the Nine Luminaries Divine Truth’s savage yell!
A fiery red crescent shot forth! It instantly collided with the crescent launched by Mo Luo Yinfeng!
CRASH! RUMBLE!
Another blinding light explosion occurred, but within that flare, the charging white silhouette did not stop for an instant, flashing like lightning straight toward Mo Luo Yinfeng!
"Ah!" Mo Luo Yinfeng’s face went white with shock! The speed and impact of the Mammoth King Beast were horrific; Mo Luo Yinfeng couldn't possibly calculate, nor did he dare to test it lightly!
Instinctively, he sidestepped, lunging toward his left!
WHOOSH!
The white shadow flashed by, piercing through the residual afterimage Mo Luo Yinfeng left behind like a gale!
Ah! SQUELCH! SQUELCH!
Then came two heart-rending screams!
"Ah!" Mo Luo Yinfeng finally realized that his instinctive sidestep had failed to stop the Nine Luminaries Divine Truth’s pursuit of Teng Chong and Teng Ke!
When Mo Luo Yinfeng looked back behind him, he could scarcely believe his eyes!
ROAR! The mouth of the Mammoth King Beast held the corpse of Teng Chong, while the long dragon spear wielded by the Nine Luminaries Divine Truth was impaling another body! It was Teng Ke’s corpse!
..............
Everyone present was stunned into silence by the scene!
In a single exchange, two Heavenly Rainbow Arcane Masters had been killed by the Nine Luminaries Divine Truth, and this occurred right under Mo Luo Yinfeng’s very eyes!
What terrifying strength was this!
Besides Mo Luo Yinfeng and Teng Kui and Teng Shuo, no one present could fully comprehend how the Nine Luminaries Divine Truth had managed to kill Teng Ke and Teng Chong! Because the entire event had transpired in a mere blink of an eye!
"The Marshal killed two Heavenly Rainbow Arcane Masters," someone finally shouted in disbelief.