Billions of Corruptors surrounded the city. That was not the most dangerous part. Corruptors kept pouring down from the dark aperture above, forcing most of their firepower to target the sky.
Explosions from above and around the city walls continued without pause. Above the walls, a Sunflame Dragon covered in Corruptors wailed as it dove crookedly downward, plunging into the mass of Corruptors outside. When it raised its wings again, they had become blood-streaked skeletons. In just a few seconds, the Sunflame Dragon was devoured completely.
This was no isolated incident. Their side had 1,300 Sunflame Dragons when the battle began, but now only a little over 800 remained. That was partly because there were too many Corruptors, and partly because the enemy also had plenty of Nether Dragons.
The Nether Dragons were much larger than the Sunflame Dragons. More than a hundred of them had been circling above since the battle began. Though they did not dare approach the Hive, afraid of being singled out by the Titan Beasts, they were not afraid of the Sunflame Dragons.
Despite the difference in size, the Sunflame Dragons were not inferior to the Nether Dragons. They also had the advantage in numbers. The problem was that every Nether Dragon was covered in several layers of Corruptors. Whenever a Sunflame Dragon clashed with one, the Nether Dragon only had to swing its body for huge clusters of Corruptors, like buckshot, to fly toward the Sunflame Dragon.
Once the Corruptors latched onto them, those half-dead creatures would fight to the death, transforming themselves into a dark-green fluid that corroded the Sunflame Dragons.
Atop the Hive, Su Xiao watched the flaming cloud layer in the sky. It was a defensive layer formed by their Brutal Turrets firing living missiles. Every Corruptor that fell from the