"What's going on?"
Within Stormwind City, the first to notice that something was wrong outside were the auxiliary soldiers. Compared to the Fallen Angels who had collapsed first, the auxiliary soldiers, who had grown up constantly hovering on the brink of death, were far calmer. Although the situation outside looked utterly hopeless, and their survival rate was even lower than that of the flying Fallen Angels, these demons who had lived on the edge of death since childhood still desperately watched their surroundings, searching for the tiniest trace of a chance to survive.
They soon discovered the changes outside!
The barrier on the verge of shattering suddenly seemed to be pulled inward. It slowly began to contract, visibly compressing inward bit by bit!
With every bit it contracted, the weak, foam-like elemental membrane seemed to solidify slightly, while the cracks visibly faded.
This sight made the auxiliary soldiers' hearts jolt. They stared fixedly into the sky, their hearts beginning to tremble.
The Fallen Angels around them were still cursing in despair. The noisy voices made the auxiliary soldiers feel like sealing their mouths shut.
Soon, some high-ranking officers also noticed the anomaly. The reaction spread like an infection, with one person after another looking up. The initially noisy voices gradually quieted. After a few breaths, the entire top of Stormwind City fell silent. Only the uninformed residents inside the distant city walls continued screaming in panic.
"It's over there!!"
Someone suddenly found the source. Looking closely, one could see countless faint, threadlike streams of energy converging from the barrier's rune formations toward another place. These spider-silk-like energy roots were densely packed—at least several million of them—and under the pull of some force, they tugged at the weak barrier outside, drawing it inward bit by bit. At the center of those