Three days later.
The long-planned, ferocious assault from the Mind Flayer Empire unfolded exactly as intended.
Amid the ripples of magic.
A scarlet pillar of searing flame shot into the sky, like a column reaching straight to the heavens.
Carrying boundless heat.
It pierced straight into the deepest reaches of the clouds.
Before that heat, even the clouds were helplessly burned through with a big hole!
At the origin of the pillar of fire, within that important city located deep in the Gith Empire.
Wave after wave of shockwaves, like translucent ring-shaped attacks, forcibly crushed more than half the city's buildings and countless people flat!
Even those thick-skinned giants received no special treatment before that power capable of tearing mountains apart.
In the blink of an eye.
They were ripped into countless chunks of flesh.
As dust and shattered stones flew wildly through the air!
It could be said.
That single wave of attacks alone instantly reduced the city's population by more than seventy percent, leaving only a small number of residents clinging to life...
However.
At the very center of the attack, where the primary targets were located, all signs of life had yet to be extinguished!
Several Gith who had lived here all along, carrying out the core guard duty, were still alive.
As the place where a treasure as important as the God-Bestowed Scroll was kept.
All this time.
It had continuously been layered with every sort of protective spell.
The entire building had also been constructed from only the rarest and most premium materials.
With all those factors combined.
It was directly endowed with extraordinary defensive power!
Thus, even the prepared, charged strike of several Mind Flayer Elders had merely left it looking somewhat damaged.
No matter how the surrounding flames battered and assailed it, it