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"Watch out!"
Almost the instant Noah's voice fell, the black armored giant at the center of the sea of flames seemed to notice Noah and the others hovering in the sky. A crimson, blood-red light suddenly flashed from where its eyes should have been.
"Click..."
With a mechanical sound, an enormous steel cannon abruptly rose from the black armored giant's shoulder and aimed at Noah and the others in the sky. An astonishing amount of divine power gathered at its muzzle.
"Bang—!"
The next moment, a deafening cannon blast rang out.
A massive shell of scorching fire, two or three meters in diameter, shot through the air like lightning. It scraped against the atmosphere, sending the howling wind into violent turbulence as it twisted madly toward Noah and the others above.
Finally, like a huge meteor, the fierce blast slammed down on Noah and the others.
"Boom—!"
At once, an earth-shaking explosion resounded through the sky above the sea of flames, kicking up a wave of fire that burst outward in every direction like exploding fireworks.
From the direction of Areishia Spirit Academy, one could see a dense blaze suddenly erupt above the sea of flames. The thunderous boom was so powerful that even the students far away in the academy went pale, their ears rang, and they felt dizzy.
Without a doubt, if they had been struck by an attack like that, even fire-element spirits with extremely high resistance to cannon fire would have been annihilated in an instant, leaving no trace behind.
If even spirits would suffer that fate, humans stood even less of a chance.
Yet