"Great Ancestor of Flames..."
"Great Ancestor of Frost..."
On a low hill not far from the side of the tunnel entrance, a Sentry Tower had been built at some point, concealed among the trees.
On a large rock beside the Sentry Tower, Lu Yang led 1,500 forbidden-spell mages in casting lesser forbidden spells.
Their attack range was enormous. Each lesser forbidden spell covered a diameter of 200 meters. With 1,500 people casting at once and five overlapping in each area, the entire zone spanning 3,000 meters across and 4,000 meters deep was within the forbidden spells' range.
Dark clouds pressed down from above, and the massive celestial phenomenon immediately alerted Kerim that someone was hurling forbidden spells at them.
"Damn it, where did this ambush come from? Paladins, activate Holy Shield and raise your shields overhead! Priests and mages, hide beneath the shields!" Kerim roared.
The players following him were all battle-hardened veterans and were very familiar with the scene in the sky. The paladins activated their invincibility skills and raised their shields, while the priests hid beneath them. But they had not expected forbidden-spell mages to launch a long-range ambush, so their original formation had been paladins and shield warriors in front, mages in the middle, and priests at the rear.
Forced to suddenly change formations, Kerim's players fell into brief chaos. Yet his men truly deserved to be called elite veterans. They actually completed most of the formation within ten seconds. Of the 300,000 people nearby, 100,000 managed to remain in place without having their formation disrupted. As for the other 200,000, more than half were dead or wounded, and their formation had scattered.
Inside the distant low hill.
Blackflame looked at Lu Yang and asked, "Boss, this Kerim really is a tough expert to deal with."