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After confirming that the Ice Spring Giants' vanguard was about to reach the Wind Barrier, the scholars monitoring their movements sounded a melodious battle horn over the loudspeakers.
In fact, even without the horn, the scholars guarding the inside of the Wind Barrier had already been urgently mobilized as planned a day earlier. Everyone was on high alert, ready for combat at any moment.
"They're here."
Chuback took a long drag from his pipe before slowly lowering it. Through the thousands of meters between them, he gazed at the smooth Wind Barrier rising high into the clouds in the distance.
No one else in the room said a word.
They all looked toward the Wind Barrier, waiting for the enemy to appear.
Time ticked by, second by second, with the beat of their hearts.
A little over ten minutes later,
shadows gradually appeared on the once mirror-smooth Wind Barrier. Then, under everyone's watchful gaze, a massive mass of ice, white blending into pale blue, struggled to break through the barrier. Like a snail, it slowly squeezed its way into the eye of the storm.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The moment the invader appeared, countless weapons that had been primed and ready unleashed astonishing energy, concentrating their fire around it.
In an instant,
the Energy Shield around the enormous mass of ice flickered under the barrage. It had clearly been pushed far beyond its maximum defensive capacity and looked ready to collapse at any moment.
Just then,
the Energy Sources atop several temporary High Towers built around the Wind Barrier erupted with a terrifying pressure.
Drawing on their power, the scholars unleashed several war techniques as powerful as a high-level Pioneer's full-force strike. They rained down on the enormous mass of ice's deep-blue Energy Shield.
Under the repeated assault of