Broken Island War Zone.
Outside the thirty-six Guard Camps and dozens of defensive positions, one blurry golden giant after another stood planted in the earth, leaning on spears.
Using these golden giants as anchors, dazzling golden barriers spread out to both sides, fitting together piece by piece until they completely enclosed the entire war zone.
The sky and the ground were both shrouded in golden light, making everyone's fighting spirit surge while filling them with incomparable reassurance.
"Celestial God Barrier!"
Beyond the barrier, the black tide suddenly surged upward like waves crashing against a cliff, then tumbled backward.
Some of the weaker monsters turned into wisps of black smoke and vanished the instant they struck the golden light.
Farther away, more than a dozen, then more than twenty, blood-colored giant eyes gathered into formations. They concentrated their power and fired devastating crimson beams, yet still failed to create much of a ripple on the golden barrier.
At that moment,
Within the tide, a colossal Calamity Beast shaped like a crawling dragon—so huge that it dwarfed mountains—suddenly dug its four feet into the ground. Its enormous, hideous head tilted slightly upward, and a crimson energy sphere containing immense power slowly formed before its huge maw, which was covered in blood-colored tendrils.
The energy sphere grew from the size of a grain of rice, little by little, until it reached a diameter of dozens of meters.
The tremendous energy within the crimson orb caused the surrounding space to warp faintly.
"Roar!"
The Calamity Beast bellowed and spat the crimson orb straight ahead.
The enormous crimson sphere howled across the sky, sending out ring after ring of visible storms. On the ground, the monsters surging forward were swept into the air by the storm, while the earth sank downward, forming a trench that