When the first wave of armor-piercing arrows came whistling down, Yue Shan's avatar grabbed Zeppelin and slammed him heavily to the ground. His hands swiftly snatched the nearby Vias nobles over and piled them on the ground like heaps of meatballs. Then Yue Shan's avatar flicked his left hand, and exquisite little dragons rose from the Soaring Dragon Bracelet, circling Lin Qi amid ear-splitting dragon roars.
Zeppelin was slammed so hard that his head spun, then several governors crashing down on top of him nearly broke his back.
Then they saw foot-long little dragons dancing through the air, trailing black streams of light as they wove a thin black curtain around them, covering an area several meters across. Countless arrows shrieked down and struck the shield, sending tiny ripples through the black light curtain.
Yue Shan's avatar wore a grave expression as he poured every last scrap of power within him into the Soaring Dragon Bracelet.
Had Lin Qi's true body been here, the wyrms emerging from the Soaring Dragon Bracelet would have been dozens of meters long, enough to cover an area several li across. But Yue Shan's avatar had been fashioned by Princess Qingli from magical materials; the scant magical power in his body came entirely from formations and magical runes drawing in scattered magical elements. That meager power could only sustain a small light screen several meters wide.
And the light screen's defense was not particularly strong. The very first wave of armor-piercing arrows had nearly punched through it.
The only people Yue Shan's avatar could protect were Zeppelin and a dozen or so governors beneath him. As for the other nobles surrounding them, they had truly run into bloody misfortune. Wave after wave of arrows whistled down. These pampered nobles, who did nothing but eat and