As the front line against Curvature Spacetime flying devices, the two curvature reefs naturally counted for little in this kind of warfare.
The true first line of defense for the Academic World was the Wind Barrier.
The Wind Barrier, supported by Law Power, undoubtedly gave the civilizations inside it an enormous defensive advantage. The Academic World had experienced the difficulties it posed many times before while destroying other civilizations.
Taking advantage of this, the Academic World had hastily built a nearly hundred-kilometer-long wall along the section of the Wind Barrier closest to the Destroyers. It had also established numerous defensive restrictions and stockpiled resources around the wall.
Relying on these defensive installations, the Academic World hoped only that they would hold for about three days—long enough to capture a batch of living specimens.
"Three days..."
The leaders in charge of defending the Wind Barrier were the dean of the Esoteric Light Academy of Sciences and the dean of the Blue Sky Engineering Academy. Under them were eight more deans from nearby academies, temporarily summoned for the task.
Although the Academic World had gathered materials and personnel from nearby academies along this hundred-kilometer front, they had no confidence whatsoever that they could hold it for three days.
As deans of central academies, the two had distinguished themselves among the hundreds of academy deans in the Academic World. Their strength and intelligence went without saying; both were peerless talents, recognized as outstanding figures by the major nearby academies.
But being close to the front lines of the war meant they knew far more than others.
Aside from the two of them, the eight pioneering scholars who had been summoned—most of them deans of nearby academies—also wore varying degrees of grim, solemn determination with a great battle at hand.
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