A surprise in the carriage
Just by looking at their striking white robes against the dark, snowy night, and the eerie Formation Inscription extending from beneath their feet, even a fool could tell that these guys blocking the way were Heretic from the Withered Glory Society.
The massive avalanche and the strange tide that just exploded at the crucial intersection of the main road were clearly a series of traps deliberately set by these guys. Their goal was to split up the Academy convoy, forcing the rest of the team to change course and enter this side mountain road, thus falling into their pre-arranged ambush!
As the two convoys from the Knight Academy stopped not far from the Formation Inscription, the two white-robed members Withered Glory Society the Decaying Glory Society standing at the head of the Inscription in the center slowly raised their faces from under their hoods, opened their mouths, and seemed to be preparing to say a few polite words to the Academy members whose path was blocked, while simultaneously activating the complex Inscription beneath their feet.
But before they could even utter a single word, the Morning Bell Knight and the Lantern Knight at the front of the caravan exchanged a calm glance across the snow.
What's the point of wasting words and getting Heretic in a fight with these cowardly, Withered Glory Society from the Rong Society?
Long before the entire convoy left the North Campus's headquarters, the Academy's higher-ups had already noticed numerous birds and hidden Hidden Sentry gathering intelligence in the Northern Territory night sky and snowstorm. At that time, the knights were certain that someone would ambush them along the way.
However, the Academy's higher-ups also calculated one thing: the top combat forces of the various factions in the Northern Territory are currently restraining each other. The other side would never rashly send out Fifth Order experts just to intercept a caravan on the way. Since the highest level of those blocking the road is only Fourth Order or lower, the easiest and most straightforward way to deal with such roadblocks is to just give them a good beating!
It should be noted that the wagons used by the Northern Territory North Campus this time were already extremely wide and deep. In the two super-large heavy supply wagons that the Morning Bell Knight and the Lantern Knight led the way, they were not loaded with ordinary military supplies from the beginning. Instead, the logistics craftsmen of the North Campus crammed in two giant cannons that were supposed to be mounted on the high walls of the city and used to bombard Beast Tide and siege enemies!
The group of confident, white-robed members of the Withered Glory Society opposite them clearly never expected that the Knight Academy would be so unruly, actually hiding two heavy cannons for city defense in the military wagons.
Just as the white-robed men opened their mouths to speak, the thick wooden panels at the front of the two giant carriages led by the Morning Bell Knight crashed to the ground with a loud bang. Then, with the heavy sound of Gear turning, two enormous cannons, their walls covered with dense alchemical Inscription, emerged from the spacious carriages and, just a few dozen steps away, slammed into the faces of the group of white-robed members of the Withered Glory Society!
The white-robed man at the head of the group suddenly changed his expression. The words he was about to say were instantly stuck in his throat, and he instinctively tried to retreat.
However, at the very instant the cannon barrel emerged from the carriage, the leading Morning Bell Knight raised his right hand and struck the ancient Copper Bell hanging at his waist with a powerful blow!
Thump!
A deep, solemn bell tolled, sweeping across the entire side mountain path. The invisible sound waves, like tangible shackles, instantly swept across the Inscription area ahead. The group of white-robed members of the Withered Glory Society standing in the middle of the path felt their minds go blank. Their entire bodies, along with their boiling Transcendence aura, suddenly stiffened. They were as if they had been frozen in place by invisible ice, unable to move even a finger!
At the same moment the Morning Bell rang, freezing everyone in place, the two massive cannons inside the carriage, already filled with highly concentrated magic crystal gunpowder, were simultaneously ignited and detonated by the accompanying gunners without hesitation!
Two terrifyingly loud bangs, loud enough to shatter eardrums, exploded in the narrow valley. The entire mountain road and the mountains on both sides shook violently from the violent recoil. Two blinding red flames, carrying world-destroying Alchemy Cannon Shell, shot out of the barrels and slammed into the crowd ahead, skimming across the snow-covered ground!
At such close range, being hit by a salvo from two massive city-defense cannons, the large number of members of the Withered Glory Society, who were frozen in place by the Morning Bell and had no time to dodge, didn't even have time to utter a scream. They were instantly blasted into dust and ashes in the earth-shattering explosion, along with their white robes and the intricate Formation Inscription beneath their feet!
A violent shockwave, carrying smoke and debris, swept across the blocked mountain path, instantly creating a scorched, empty crater. Only two or three white-robed figures, who had been standing at the very edge of the path and were fortunate enough to escape the direct hits, were thrown far away by the shockwave. Seeing their companions' corpses instantly reduced to dust, they were terrified and scrambled into the dense forest and snow-covered landscape on either side to escape.
The instant the two cannon shots shattered the enemy blocking their path, the Lantern Knight on the other side raised his ancient-looking lantern high. The clear, warm light suddenly ignited, and the small guide lanterns hanging on the left front of all the heavy carriages in the entire caravan seemed to be drawn to it, lighting up at the same moment, forming a striking long line of light amidst the billowing black smoke and swirling snow.
"Go! The commotion was too loud; it's about to trigger a second avalanche! Everyone, stick close to the left headlights and speed away!"
The Lantern Knight's high-pitched and steady command pierced through the billowing smoke and resounded throughout the entire army. After all, firing two massive defensive cannons simultaneously in such a narrow mountain pass with towering snow-capped peaks on both sides had caused the earth-shattering roar to violently crack the millennia-old snow on the cliffs above, potentially triggering a secondary avalanche even more terrifying than the previous one!
Sitting in the back carriage, Lu Yuan listened to the fading echoes of the roar outside. In his mind, Oden looked at the two menacing cannon barrels slowly retracting into the carriage ahead and couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement:
"Shoving the city's massive cannons into carriages and pulling them out to blast people face-to-face—this Knight Academy's style of doing things is quite to my liking."
"I didn't realize their firearms had reached this level..."
Lu Yuan thought to himself.
Looking at the scene before them, if this cannon were to hit them head-on, an ordinary Fourth Order Transcendence would definitely not be able to withstand it; only a Fifth Order Transcendence powerhouse would be unharmed.
If this continues, could something even more terrifying emerge?
After all, compared to the Transcendence, firearms are indeed cheaper and easier to use, have no rank restrictions, and you don't have to worry about going berserk.