Two more days passed, and the worst-case scenario at the Lighthouse still came to pass.
Before Dragonbone Village and the Lighthouse could respond to the crisis, the Devourers gathered of their own accord beneath the Lighthouse. Then, as if on cue, they began piling themselves into a mountain of flesh, seemingly just as Jingnan had once told Charles: they planned to climb up to the Lighthouse by building a mountain of flesh beneath it.
After a whole night, they had only managed to build it up a few dozen meters. Even so, their speed was enough to give Charles and the other Lighthouse officials quite a fright.
After all, the Lighthouse's lowest point was only a little over two hundred meters above the ground. At the rate the Devourers were piling themselves up, they would reach its lowest overhang in three to five days at most!
Meanwhile, the agreement between Dragonbone Village and the Lighthouse—to work together to crack the brain Clotho's lock on the Lighthouse's flight-control system—had yet to get underway. And no one knew how long it would take to crack the lock. With the situation so urgent, the Lighthouse's city defense force immediately began bombing the Devourers on the ground, under orders from its city lord, Charles.
But the Lighthouse was simply too close to the ground. They feared the shock waves from an explosion might shake it and cause an uncontrolled landing, so the city defense force didn't dare use powerful weapons or bombs. At most, they used incendiary devices to pour fuel over the Devourers and burn them, or bombarded them with small-caliber shells.
However, after another day or two of effort, they realized it was basically useless!
The corpses of the Devourers they had killed with bombs and fire couldn't be cleared away, so