Outside the window.
Blazing firelight illuminated the entire family territory.
"What is that?"
An old Wizard returning to his residence from outside looked up and saw meteors raining down upon the family territory.
The meteors trailed crimson light and pale red flames, accompanied by piercing shrieks, as though demons were screaming.
As an old Wizard of the Winston Family who had been born and raised here, he had never imagined such a scene would occur within the family.
This was the Winston Family.
One of the Academy's peak families.
And as the meteors drew ever closer, he could even feel the surrounding temperature rising—along with his fear.
"No!"
He wanted to hide.
But this attack covered far too wide an area, nearly blanketing the entire family territory. Where could he possibly hide?
He could only activate his defenses and scream in terror, "Enemy attack!"
But it was already too late. The flaming meteors drew closer and closer, though the activation of the defensive Wizard Array reassured him somewhat.
Attack after attack struck the defensive Wizard Array.
Flames splashed everywhere, yet none entered the family grounds.
Only then did the Wizard breathe a sigh of relief.
Only then did he react.
This was the Winston Family's core territory. After countless years of accumulation, the defenses here were extraordinarily formidable.
From the outside...
He had just been about to say something when the smile on his face froze. He watched as layer after layer of defensive Wizard Arrays slowly vanished.
The meteors fell completely.
"No!"
He wailed.
A flaming meteor crashed into an area several dozen meters away from him.
There stood a cluster of towering Wizard Towers.
The meteor struck a Wizard Tower head-on. Amid a thunderous boom, the tower's feeble defenses might as well have been nonexistent, and a massive