However, to their disappointment, although the High Tower was covered in dense cracks under the bombardment of Meteor Burst, as if it might collapse at any moment, it ultimately remained standing.
At the same time, the attack seemed to have enraged the Star-Praising Cultists within the tower.
After the tower trembled once, several Star-Praising Cultists radiating high-rank auras swiftly rushed out and began searching the area for the foreign enemies.
Then, a foreign object hundreds of meters in size, like an amorphous mass of chaos, squeezed out through the tower's gates.
Its nightmare-black body churned, producing disgusting sounds like sludge being stirred in a drain. In an anti-gravity posture, it surged madly toward the attackers.
Unlike the strange flying dragons from before, with their high speed and destructive power, this mass-like aberrant aggregate could only fly at a moderate speed. However, it possessed an extremely powerful spiritual contaminating effect.
Even merely looking at it caused waves of frenzied whispers and notes to suddenly arise within the Sea of Spirit of the spellcasters.
This was exceptionally deadly for Professionals of the magic branch. Once their Sea of Spirit was contaminated, even cleansing their own abnormal condition became extremely difficult, much less casting spells that required precise guidance.
The world in their perception began to change violently. The sky rapidly turned to night, while the ground, ruined buildings, collapsed statues... everything in their sight began spewing out large amounts of dark green, viscous, mud-like matter, as if it were trying to drag them into the depths and utterly corrupt them.
Even though they rationally knew it was all false, some kind of Illusion Magic cast by the enemy, they still could not break free.
Forcibly suppressing the abnormalities in their Sea of Spirit while activating their respective life-saving Magic Curios, the spellcasters