But the rangers' archery was astonishing. Arrows of terrifying penetrative force spun rapidly like drills, boring small holes through the rune shields and rune armor before plunging viciously into the soldiers' bodies. Yet what enraged these sharp-eyed rangers was that the soldiers' flesh seemed incredibly tough as well. After piercing a layer of armor and a shield, their arrows could no longer inflict much damage on the soldiers.
Some soldiers simply pulled the arrows from their bodies, then operated the powerful ballistae atop the walls and launched a counterattack at the rangers a thousand meters away. The Dragon Mountain Empire was extravagantly wealthy. There was a tower every hundred meters along the walls, with dozens of large ballistae positioned above and below each tower. On average, there was virtually a nine-shot ballista for every meter of wall.
Once those soldiers launched their fierce counterattack, countless heavy ballista bolts several meters long and as thick as an arm came howling through the air, their heads shaped like crescent shovels. The bowstrings used by these ballistae were all dragon sinew—not the inferior sinew of drakes, but genuine giant dragon sinew. What was enough to make one cough up blood was that every strand came from pureblood dragons!
Other than Lin Qi, who possessed Dragon Cliff and could endlessly produce all kinds of materials from dragons, not even the gods could afford such extravagant equipment! There was no need to elaborate on the power of dragon sinew. With only a thunderous BANG, those heavy, pure-metal ballista bolts, each weighing hundreds of pounds, abruptly arrived before the rangers.
Blood and flesh immediately flew everywhere. Hundreds of rangers were struck by the ballista bolts, their slender, fragile bodies exploding on the spot into countless sprays of blood that scattered through the sky. After tearing through