Over the next half month, the Eileen Cup had already reached the top thirty-two double-elimination bracket, yet the Blue-Clad Union witches still had not broken through the encirclement. They had only managed to establish a defensive perimeter around the royal city, restore part of its production, and prevent the Blue-Clad Union from having to spend money to send provisions in.
As for breaking out...
The witches had exhausted every trick they had—fireballs carpet-bombing the ground, dead clouds washing faces, seven-colored rainbow balls going pew pew one after another. They had tried them all.
But without being able to use advanced spells...
Even when they achieved something, killing a few squads of soldiers and causing a little chaos, the rebels swiftly shoved them back with sheer numbers.
It forced Solna, the Infernal Witch, to use a forbidden move from the Witch Forbidden Art of War Compendium:
[Fire a Witch General to Breach the City]
...She fired herself into the enemy camp like a cannonball. In the end, Saintess Vera beat her until her head was covered in bumps, and she only managed to escape after losing a huge number of demon servant troops.
Over those half a month, Jiang Han had been terribly worried too!
She had gained two pounds.
On March 19, the witches once again prepared to break out.
Following Tan Yue's group, Jiang Han first made a great show of casting several rounds of [Deflect Projectiles] before, as usual, every witch unleashed fifteen rounds of Missile Storm to scour the ground.
Then each of them picked a spot occupied by rebel cannon fodder and tossed in some fireballs.
Then they watched their army drag up the purchased twelve-pound cannon.
BOOM!
The cannon blast exploded into a wave of sound, scattering petite witches like Jiang Han. She even