Yet Chen Cheng had no intention whatsoever of stopping this, just as Smog had not let anyone stop him from entering the Dwarf Kingdom.
A high-pitched yet muffled horn sounded. With that sound, the entire world seemed to awaken. The heavens began to shatter, the earth began to quake, and the volcanoes roared ceaselessly like enraged bulls.
Yet at that very moment, outside the Dwarf Kingdom, the ground suddenly swelled upward. A majestic Great Wall rose from the earth, completely sealing off the Dwarf Kingdom's territory.
Dwarves who had evacuated could still be seen atop the wall.
Within Dwarf City, already filled with mountains of corpses and seas of blood, the bodies rapidly withered before turning into grim white bones beyond the Great Wall.
After absorbing the power within those bones, the Great Wall's defenses took effect. The tremors brought by the horn could not pass beyond the wall and could only affect the Dwarf Kingdom within a radius of several thousand li.
Looking at the Great Wall, seemingly far beyond the horizon yet close enough to touch, Smog's expression could no longer be described as merely ugly.
"How is this possible? How could the Great Wall appear here?"
Chen Cheng merely chuckled.
"You're allowed to scheme from the shadows and pull the strings, but I'm not allowed to cross the sea under cover of darkness? Old dog, this will be your burial ground today. I've already given an old dog like you plenty of face, so just die."
The instant Chen Cheng's words fell, Samlet flashed and appeared directly before Smog.
It was still a sword thrust, still leaving him no chance to react, still a single strike that landed true.
But this time, Smog was not reduced to dust by Samlet's sword as easily as the mask he