Black-red flames of destruction blanketed the entire Holy Mountain.
The scant remnants left behind by the Church were utterly wiped out. They had never been trusted under Blackbeard to begin with, and Yun had not allocated many resources to them either. The defenses outside their encampment were the weakest. When several god-level elf archmages self-destructed at close range, everyone from the original Doomsday Elders Council down—countless archbishops, bishops, priests, and other clergy—was reduced to ashes.
Tens of millions of Abyssal troops were also ground to pieces by the terrifying force of the explosions: demons, devils, and warriors of their vassal races. Countless warriors of races such as gray goblins, Blood Elves, Berserker Dwarves, and Gray Dwarves were blown to pulp. Their weapons and armor could not protect their fragile lives against such an assault.
The Black Household Family's direct descendants and the warriors of the Twelve Ancient Clans fared best. Their camps were the sturdiest, the defensive barriers outside their barracks the densest, and above all, their guards the most vigilant. Before those self-destructing elves could draw near their camps, they were shouted at and warned. When the elves charged the barracks regardless and prepared to self-destruct, the guards had already fiercely activated the camps' offensive measures, killing vast numbers of elves on the spot.
Thus, these camps stood immovable amid the explosions. Apart from some tremors, their losses were negligible.
Other than Lin Qi's own direct subordinates and confidants, those who suffered little loss were the dragons from the Dragon Abyss, the giants from the Giant Abyss, and the liches from the Undead Abyss.
Dragons were innately highly resistant to all manner of magic. Though these elf mages had already reached god-level, their self-destruction cost the dragons no more than three to five scales—or perhaps thirty to fifty scales.