Just as an upheaval erupted within the Trial Battlefield, Cowell City in the real world likewise entered its most critical hour.
The Luskans surged forward without pause like madmen. At the same time, they began coating arrows and catapult stones in a mixture of oils and fats before setting them alight. Even in the rain, the flames only burned fiercer.
Clearly, they had long been plotting against Moonshadow Island. That was why they had specifically developed siege tactics tailored to Moonshadow Island's monsoon-heavy, rain-soaked climate.
As time passed, the entire city of Cowell looked, at a glance, as though it had been set ablaze, filled with a scorching crimson glow.
Fortunately, the High Priest seemed to have anticipated such a day. The moment the Luskans attacked, he had organized the elderly, the weak, women, and children to retreat into the Temple of Nature, while every Adult, male or female, had been conscripted into battle.
Yet even with mobilization pushed to such lengths, Cowell still suffered horrific casualties beneath the sustained suppression of the Luskans' arrow rain and alchemical cannon formations. The hastily erected outer wall was also on the verge of collapse.
"Damn it! The breach up ahead can't hold any longer! Senarian, think of something!"
Controlling an Iron Golem covered in scars and patches, Herbert smashed apart an incoming catapult stone with one swing of his sword and roared at his druid through the hive channel.
"If only that barbarian Pantos were here. I'm just not suited for a battlefield where you have to go head-to-head like this!"
Senarian complained, but he did not hesitate for long.
"Drag me over there!"
After the red golem Senarian was piloting was struck by the petrification ray of that Luskan legendary Mage, it had been completely paralyzed from the waist down, like