Explosions Inside the City, Then Outside

Amid the brilliant fireworks filling the sky, one hundred and eighty streaks of light shot upward, each one aimed with flawless precision.

As though measured with a ruler, they trailed dazzling flames and blazing radiance, instantly creating a dazzling wave of light at another level of the high sky.

As fireworks blossomed across the heavens, every High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Device was reduced to fragments by the searing high-explosive shells.

Under their operators' control, High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Devices could evade attacks from all directions to a certain extent. But they had no good answer to the sudden barrage raining up at them from directly below.

Rise higher?

No matter how fast High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Devices ascended, they could not possibly outpace Soul Guidance Shells flying into the sky!

Before the people at the Soul Engineer positions could react, the concentrated artillery under He Caitou's command unleashed its might.

More than a hundred shells took flight, each launched toward the eastern and western city walls.

The Soul Engineer Legion positions stationed outside the eastern and western sides of the city had no way to stop those Standard Soul Guidance Shells.

Having lost the targeting assistance of their High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Devices, the Soul Tools that could no longer coordinate with one another immediately lost the system-based combat capabilities they had been most proud of.

Outside the Soul Engineer Legion's positions, the Protective Barriers swayed on the verge of collapse. Yet, relying on their formidable overall integrity, they somehow withstood that round of bombardment.

The commander who had rushed to the core position went pale with shock, then finally let out a long breath of relief.

"Good thing those lunatics are poor and didn't use higher-grade Soul Guidance Shells. Otherwise, the Protective Barriers really wouldn't have held."

"Pass on