"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"
Just as the wyverns swept over Babylonia's defensive line and dove toward the city, hundreds of throwing spears shot forth.
The wind howled sharply. Several wyverns flying low were caught off guard, pierced into porcupines, and fell screaming from the sky.
Led by Tim, the general of Eresh City, the Uruk soldiers who had gathered by scaling the wall from the East Gate barracks unleashed a beautiful volley, temporarily halting the wyvern flock's fierce advance.
Then, in the precious time bought by Leonidas and the East Gate barracks, formations of light flared one after another at the Astrology Platform, the sacrificial grounds, and the Shrine Maiden's Office.
At once, mages traced and activated spell formulas, priests conducted beast-repelling and curse-breaking rituals, and shrine maidens moved their lips in obscure chants of divine words.
Mystic institutions scattered throughout different districts of Uruk began operating in succession, desperately intercepting the wyverns.
However, now that the beasts were prepared, they scattered their formation, climbed higher, and specifically targeted weakly defended areas, striking where the enemy was weakest.
For a time, hundreds of black shadows swooped down in flurries, tearing apart rooftops and snatching living people away as chaos spread at terrifying speed.
The seemingly impregnable Absolute Demonic Beast Front had, for the first time, exposed an almost fatal weakness.
Namely, the lack of effective air defense.
Uruk's outer perimeter was indeed covered by wide-ranging and powerful magical restrictions, but surely they could not have designed them to filter out even birds?
And these wyverns relied entirely on their physical strength to take flight and dive, almost perfectly bypassing those restrictions.
Besides, this defensive system had its limits. Didn't that great Goddess Ishtar come and go whenever she pleased?
The so-called banishment spells at the sacrificial grounds worked well enough