The Destroyers finally launched an all-out assault on the Blue Sky Engineering Academy's defenses!
But this wasn't because the Lava Hounds had completed their initial culling and the Destroyers were beginning their full-scale attack according to plan. For some unknown reason, the Lava Hounds had fallen into unprecedented chaos. Though it had lasted only a few minutes, they had suffered enormous losses, leaving the Destroyers no choice but to attack.
The Lava Hounds were the Destroyers' companions.
The Destroyers could accept the deaths of the Lava Hounds. In their eyes, death was a necessary part of the evolutionary process, a necessary price to pay in the struggle for survival.
But that was only when they died in the natural course of that struggle—not because of some uncontrollable, unknown factor.
As they watched their companions being relentlessly battered by the Academic World's many weapons amid the chaos, the Destroyers' leaders began to suspect something was wrong. They decisively ordered an attack before the enemy could strike again.
Hunters and hounds were naturally in entirely different leagues when it came to combat strength.
The scholars, who had been relying on various enchantments and weapons to attack the Lava Hounds, suddenly suffered a devastating assault beyond anything an outsider could imagine. In no time at all, the defensive line outside the city began to collapse across the board.
One bull-headed, human-bodied monster after another charged into the ranks of the scholars like cannonballs fired from their barrels, bringing explosive force as they plunged into a bloody clash of flesh and bone, iron and fire.
Roen, hailed as a hero by the scholars around him after the battle with the Lava Hounds, was also at the front.
Perhaps because the sight of him controlling the Lava Hounds and throwing them into chaos had been