"Kill!"
After the twenty thousand men withdrew, a tidal wave of battle cries rang out inside the city.
At the very center of Shell Iron City, a long wall of flame began to blaze.
The flames stretched from the left city wall all the way to the right, running for several li. From atop the walls, the sight was especially spectacular.
And that was precisely the force Shell Iron City had laid in ambush beforehand. Now that they had received the signal, those troops began their counterattack, encircling and annihilating the Gale Legion soldiers who had fallen into the city.
"What's going on?"
The day-long roar of killing inside the city could be heard just as clearly outside.
And just like the other divine legions Nalant had trapped, faced with the suddenly shut city gates and the fierce counterattack from the defending soldiers, both the god and the legion captains were completely stupefied.
Hadn't the plan been perfectly fine before this?
Everything had been developing according to the normal steps. They only needed to wait another half hour, and today's victory would likely have been settled.
"My lord god, this is bad!"
Just then, the messenger who had fled back in panic from the front finally returned, gasping for breath.
"My lord god, the enemy suddenly sent out twenty thousand elite soldiers they had prepared in ambush and directly sealed off the front wall."
"Besides that, it seems the enemy had a large number of troops hidden inside the city. They've already begun a counterattack and have surrounded the legion warriors we sent into the city earlier!"
The messenger immediately reported the situation inside the city.
"What? Not only did they ambush elite soldiers to block the city gate, they even organized a counterattack and surrounded our legion warriors?"