The Horaka Defense Line was an important defensive formation urgently constructed by numerous Legendary professionals specifically to block the invasion of Abyssal Demons. Its core consisted of a combined enchantment cluster formed by layering numerous Legendary magic arrays together. The completed Legendary defense line ultimately created a semi-transparent wall of Law energy a hundred thousand meters high, resisting the surging waves of Chaos energy from the Abyss.
Although, in Punk's "well-informed" Morningstar Professional opinion, the solidity of this defensive line stretching across half the Kalamus Empire could only be described as "barely passable," with foundations and theoretical effects so poor they were appalling, this thing had supposedly still been an "epic masterpiece" completed only after two "volunteer" Legendary Mages had exhausted nearly all their wealth. After personally inspecting those magic arrays with their utterly atrocious rune inscriptions, Whisper of Destruction could only offer the objective assessment that the Hermit faction's Legendary professionals of this era were each worse than the last.
But on second thought, it did not really matter. The Horaka Defense Line protected a group of unlucky refugees who had been urgently evacuated from the border regions of the Kalamus Empire. At least until some lesser Demon Lord wandered nearby and set its sights on the "snacks" hiding in the vast refugee camps, these ordinary people shivering in the growing cold did not need to worry about whether the towering magic array spanning heaven and earth was truly as impregnable as they imagined.
Moreover, during the brief period before the arrival of Winter Season, the billions of refugees were fortunate enough not to tremble in fear because of the Demon Lords roaming like moving mountains near the distant rifts. After the previous pre-battle meeting ended, the four Morningstar powerhouses of the Guardian Alliance had decisively accepted the "charitable"