Just as the fugitives curled into balls and followed Meng Chao's orders, burying their mouths, noses, eyes, and ears deep in the soil, shrill howls rang out from midair.
What the centaur warriors fired were no ordinary arrows.
Their metal shafts were often engraved with Cuneiform Script containing mysterious power. The grooves were smeared with secret medicine brewed by witch doctors and blessed by priests.
The arrowheads were drilled with round or triangular holes, into which crystals rich in Spiritual Energy were embedded.
Then, through the agitation of the Life Magnetic Field and the vibrations caused by high-speed friction against the air—
Their destructive power, pushed to the limit, rivaled Dragon City's rifle grenades and mortars, and they could carry lethal effects of wind, fire, thunder, lightning, and more.
Spiritual Energy arrows accelerated to their limits tore through the sky in an instant, trailing streaks of multicolored flames.
At first glance, they looked like rainbows and Fireworks alike.
But when these "rainbow Fireworks" landed near the fugitives, they stirred up gory storms of blood.
Though the centaur warriors were too far away to pinpoint every fugitive hiding in the grass—
Every arrow that struck the ground unleashed death shockwaves three to five meters wide, sometimes even larger.
Arrows trailing crimson flames erupted into raging fire across a radius of three to five meters, burning the fugitives concealed within until their skin was charred and flesh scorched, drawing scream after scream.
Arrows trailing ghostly blue flames transformed an area three to five meters wide into an Ice Cave of extreme cold. Many fugitives did not even have time to scream before fatal frost mist burrowed through their mouths and noses into their chests, freezing and cracking their hearts and lungs.
After arrows trailing golden flames struck the ground, dozens—hundreds—of wildly leaping