"Your Highness! Look out!"
Mu Xue shouted a warning. The Fixed Soul Cannon Shells in the sky were already closing in.
Before her words had even faded, rumbling explosions lit up in the distance. Only afterward did the blasts' shock waves sweep toward them.
Fortunately, they were not the targets. The Imperial City at the center of Heaven Dou City was.
Boom-!
The first wave of strikes landed around the palace. Imperial guards and Soul Masters guarding it from the shadows alike were swallowed by the explosions.
Then came the second wave-the three most dazzling shooting stars.
Three brilliant masses of white light flared from three different directions, like vortices threatening to swallow the palace between them.
Bzz! Bzzzz!
At first, no one heard the explosions. Instead, they went deaf, as though the entire world had fallen silent.
Then came the deafening detonations. Vina and Mu Xue were hurled away by the shock wave and crashed into a shop beside the street.
"Cough, cough!"
Mu Xue staggered to her feet. Her body felt as though a heavy truck had run her over, every bone seemingly shattered.
"Your Highness! Your Highness!"
Ignoring the excruciating pain, she hurriedly searched the surroundings for Vina.
This street was close to the palace, and all the nearby buildings had collapsed. Ordinary people without soul power to protect them had vanished in sprays of blood the instant the shock wave arrived.
"I'm all right!"
From beneath a pile of rubble, Vina blasted away the stones pinning her down. A yellow soul tool barrier enveloped her.
Compared with the battered Mu Xue, she was in somewhat better shape thanks to her Soul Tool Shield.
"A ninth-level Fixed-Installation Soul Tool!"
With Mu Xue supporting her, Vina slowly stood up, staring blankly at the burning ruins around them.
She