"Soldiers! Take up your bows! This king permits it!"
Gilgamesh stood at the highest point of the front hall steps, using mana to amplify his voice so that all of Uruk could hear him.
Other than the soldiers operating the Divine Authority Seal, every soldier picked up the bows in their hands. As they drew them, row after row of arrows shot toward the horde of Demonic Beasts.
A single arrow had little killing power, but when there were enough arrows to blanket the sky, they could still serve a purpose.
Moreover, the arrows were merely cover. The true killing power lay in the Divine Authority Seal personally created by Gilgamesh.
Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Continuous cannon fire rang out. The Divine Authority Seal possessed immense destructive power; when its blasts struck the horde of Demonic Beasts, vast swathes of them were blown into the air and torn apart as they spun.
Annanu floated in midair without using much of his power. He merely split off two sections of the Key of Heaven and tossed them to the two goddesses, while keeping most of his attention on Tiamat and Abzu.
Both Beasts were approaching rapidly. There was much less that Annanu could afford to worry about.
Now, he might not even be able to care about the lives of ordinary soldiers. Holding back the Beasts here for a little longer was what Annanu needed to focus on.
This, too, was unavoidable.
And the soldiers fighting in orderly formation atop the walls did not need Annanu or the two goddesses' protection.
At this moment, standing upon those walls meant they had long since cast aside any concern for their own lives.
Their lives were Uruk—the great city that made them hold their heads high.
Ishtar drew Maanna and bombarded the