When the spiritual energy arrows slammed into Zhengyang City's walls, faint runes emerged from the dark stonework, glowing weakly and flickering amid the explosions.
Although a massive formation enveloped Zhengyang City, it was truly the city's last line of defense. The battle had only just begun, so it could not be activated rashly. Besides, the other three directions of Zhengyang City were also under fierce assault at this very moment, placing an enormous burden on the formation.
If Zhengyang City ever reached the point where it needed that formation to defend itself, it would mean the city had reached its final hour.
Before then, they still had to rely primarily on people to hold the line.
The first volley of spiritual energy arrows from Cang Wu Kingdom inflicted no small losses upon the defenders atop the walls. At least several thousand soldiers lost their lives in a mere instant!
Naturally, the Divine Machine Crossbows on the walls had also been firing in volleys without pause. Though the Cang Wu Kingdom's military formation possessed formidable defensive measures, it could not withstand the terrifying number of Divine Machine Crossbows on the walls.
Casualties began to appear within Cang Wu Kingdom's military formation as well, their numbers rising exponentially.
Patch after patch of crimson gradually appeared across the city walls and the wilderness, spreading farther and farther.
The battle became incomparably brutal.
Before the battle, including when they had driven away those demonic beast hordes, the soldiers had still harbored fear. Looking at the black mass in the distance—the solemn and terrifying Cang Wu Kingdom military formation, carrying an intensely suffocating aura—they had felt hesitation and all manner of complicated emotions.
But once the two armies clashed, all the soldiers became numb.
The soldiers on both sides merely mechanically gathered and unleashed spiritual