"Shhk...!"
Amid the sharp sound of something tearing through the air, several streaks of light shot toward the sky, arriving beneath the dusk-colored barrier.
Under normal circumstances, anyone flying so high into the sky would have attracted the attention of the Aerial Knights from the various representative squads and been bombarded from all directions.
However, at this moment, not a single Aerial Knight fired at the figures soaring into the sky.
The reason was simple.
"Graa!"
"Graa!"
Amid a series of beast-like roars, gray monsters surged from all directions into every part of the Ninth Artificial Sky Island's forest, searching for the Aerial Knights of the representative squads. The instant they encountered them, they launched merciless ambushes.
"W-What are these monsters...?!"
"You bastards...!"
"D-Don't come any closer...!"
"My mana...!"
"Ahhhhhhh...!"
The screams of Aerial Knights drifted over from all directions, telling everyone what they had encountered.
Because of this, many Aerial Knights were scared witless and flew into the sky. Thus, on this night, many people broke the unspoken rule of this survival competition—that no one was supposed to take to the skies.
They had chosen to flee because they did not want to die at the hands of the gray monsters.
Unfortunately, all of these Aerial Knights were stopped in front of the dusk-colored barrier. No matter how they attacked it, they still could not shatter it and escape with their lives.
Before long, many of the Aerial Knights who had taken to the sky were struck down by the arm-blades of pursuing Asmodeuses. One after another, they fell from midair and vanished into the sea of trees, their fate unknown.
Similar events were occurring in every corner of the Ninth Artificial Sky Island.
In this forest that had become a cage, a massacre was underway.
Luo Zhen and