Drip, drip, drip~
Large raindrops fell one by one, gradually soaking the black stone slabs.
Mu Yuan stood atop the city wall, facing the bone-chilling wind brimming with killing intent. The wind carried raindrops that lashed against his face.
In the distant mountains, dust billowed through the forests. Vaguely, hideous monsters could be seen racing forward. At the edge of his vision, beneath the thick dark clouds in the sky, countless winged monsters flapped their wings, forming another dark cloud.
The rain grew denser. The sounds of rain, thunder, and charging monsters merged into a bleak pre-battle symphony.
The monsters gradually slowed their charge. Unlike their kin during the Calamity Moon, they did not mindlessly surge forward in wave after wave.
They were being controlled.
The controllers behind the scenes were the Legendary creatures of Gnoll Fang.
Gnoll Fang was waiting—waiting for the monster tides from all directions to converge before pressing forward in full force.
That was what made this completely different from the Red Mist Calamity Moon.
During the Red Mist Calamity Moon, Tian Yuan Territory had eradicated an enormous number of monsters, but that tally had been accumulated over more than a month. If one considered only a single siege, the tide they faced now far exceeded that of the Calamity Moon.
It was as if several, even more than a dozen, batches of monsters had converged into one. The short-term pressure they brought had multiplied dozens of times!
What was more, hidden within this tide were high-tier monsters far beyond those of the Calamity Moon.
Mu Yuan opened his Heaven's Eye and looked down from the sky. The red dots representing monsters first appeared at the northern edge of the observation area, then spread outward bit by bit, like a red tide in the process of