Countless fireballs condensed from scorching lava plunged from the sky, heavy as meteors crashing to earth. Every fireball that burst enveloped everything within a hundred meters in blinding flames. The dumbstruck beastman soldiers turned to ash in the firelight, their armor and weapons melting away completely along with them.
Before the line of defense under Enzo's command, a full thirty-li radius of land had turned into hard stone ground. The soil had been melted by the immense force of the forbidden spell, then the lava had gradually solidified under the bitter wind, reforming into slabs of rock.
Lin Qi stood atop the city wall with his hands behind his back, quietly admiring the total annihilation of yet another beastman legion, a faint, unfathomable sneer on his face. He knew full well that in this divine war launched by the other races, these ordinary beastmen were nothing but cannon fodder—tools used to wear down humanity's Primal Qi and probe humanity's response.
The true challenge still lay ahead. The challenges that the Longshan Family, the Green Forest Family, Lin Qi himself, and so many of his followers truly had to face had not even begun.
Snow gradually began to fall, blanketing the section of the defense line under Enzo's command in a thick layer of white. After Alda unleashed six forbidden-spell scrolls and instantly destroyed a beastman legion, no more beastman warriors came to attack this section of the line.
The pressure on Enzo abruptly eased. He could even lead the cavalry under his command to reinforce other sections of the defense line. Throughout the battle against the beastmen, Enzo had kept his aura suppressed at Heaven-rank level, revealing only, now and then, the astonishing strength of his formidable physical body.
He successfully drew a certain degree of attention from the beastmen,