Rumble!
Crash!
Several minutes later, a tremendous roar came from the breach.
A Graybone Earth Dragon finally succumbed to the combined siege of the Sky Knights and Earth Knights, the soul-fire in its skull extinguished.
Having lost its soul-fire, the Graybone Earth Dragon was like a pile of building blocks; once it fell, the bones all over its body scattered across the ground.
"Ha ha, we killed it!"
"That's right! We killed an eighth-tier Graybone Earth Dragon. Once word gets back to the alliance, we'll have enough to boast about for a long time!"
With that Graybone Earth Dragon dealt with, the nobles all broke into laughter.
All the Blackrock Giant Pythons on the battlefield had now been eliminated.
And one of the two strongest Graybone Earth Dragons had also been dealt with.
Thus, what had originally been a hopeless situation today now showed signs of life.
As long as they dealt with the remaining Graybone Earth Dragon, the other low- and mid-tier Dark Creatures would no longer be enough to threaten the safety of the entire allied army.
At worst, they could lead all their troops in a breakout, rather than abandoning more than two hundred thousand ordinary soldiers as they had before.
Rumble rumble!
Yet just as the allied forces were feeling greatly encouraged, an enormous boom suddenly rang out from within the city.
"What's going on?"
The nobles all froze, then turned in confusion toward the source of the roar.
"Ah! Quick, look! What is that?"
The sound had come from behind Ducal City—from the direction of the castle.
And when everyone looked up, their expressions changed at once.
The city wall that had connected Ducal City to the castle had now collapsed.
Within the dust and smoke of the ruins, an enormous figure emerged.
It was