Hearing Fei Xin say this, Mu Yun's expression turned grave as well.
In the Dark Night Empire, even their Hundred Flowers Palace's clashes with the Star Ring Guild had only been minor frictions, or battles against a Star Ring Guild force that had split off only a small portion of its strength. Yet even that had pushed Hundred Flowers Palace to the brink.
If they were facing a Star Ring Guild that was truly serious, this battle would not be anywhere near as easy as they had imagined.
Just as Fei Xin and Mu Yun arranged the guild members along the town walls and activated the defensive magic array covering all of Stream Moon Town, the Star Ring Guild forces in the distance slowly began to spread into formation, opening up one path after another.
One large heavy crossbow after another was pushed out along those paths. Fei Xin and Mu Yun, who had been busy atop the walls, both stopped what they were doing and froze on the spot.
It was not just Fei Xin and Mu Yun. Every Hundred Flowers Palace member on the walls stared in stunned disbelief.
There were more than a hundred large heavy crossbows brought out by the Star Ring Guild...
Even though they had never witnessed the power of large heavy crossbows before, the massive iron bolts loaded onto them were enough to tell them that their power was anything but ordinary.
Each iron bolt was engraved with crimson magic patterns, drawing in the surrounding mana of its own accord. Just from the mana they stirred, it was clear that their power was at least Tier 3—meaning they were absolutely no weaker than the shells fired by cannon towers.
Stream Moon Town only had eight cannon towers in total.
If more than a