Shells thundered into the already utterly devastated Blightplague Town. To maximize their lethality, Major Dunn directed his artillerymen to fire every one of his goldfire high-explosive shells in an extremely short time.
But even in such a fierce and dangerous battle, the Carnation artillerymen still strictly followed firing procedure. In particular, the "fire-control personnel" used specially made calculation orbs to determine their impact points, allowing cannons that seemed crude to foreigners to achieve a level of bombing accuracy far beyond what they ought to have been capable of.
The results of such formidable fire support were gratifying.
Although some of the firepower had been spent on the legendary giant serpent, the rest was enough to break through the psionic defenses of the teetering warlock tower.
At last, the tower's doors had been forced open, and nothing could stop the players from rushing inside. In particular, after the monks of the Shadowtrace School charged up to the tower's third floor and escorted Meng Haha to disable the switch for the trap-filled route on the western front, players across the battlefield could now travel in and out of Blightplague Town quickly.
They could finally make use of their advantage in "numbers." Howling, they poured into town and began the final fight to the death against the elite gnoll warlocks trying to escape.
But for the "professional players" responsible for clearing the raid, the situation outside wasn't worth much of their attention.
They had to use the opportunity created by the near-total wipeout of the student group to take down the BOSS in the warlock tower once and for all.
And so Crippleclaw, who had taken over command here from Rippeltissue, was in for a very bad time.
In fact, when the swamp giant serpent had been lured into Blightplague Town, followed by