One ballista bolt after another, carrying fierce gusts of wind, whistled toward the shield wall.
Bang! Bang! Bang...
Dull impacts rang out as ballista bolts struck the shield wall. The tremendous force shoved the soldiers behind the shields back several steps.
Though they were unhurt, their shield wall had collapsed and could no longer hold together. Countless skeletons, fearless of death and filled only with the thrill of slaughtering living beings, quickly surged toward those gaps.
Just as the shield wall was about to collapse completely, soldiers swiftly killed the skeletons that had poured in. The Shield Bearers also braced themselves against the line again, each emanating an earthy yellow aura. No one knew what they had used, but their shields also began to glow yellow.
The yellow light fused together completely, forming an aura as steady as a mountain and as indestructible as a fortress. It looked extraordinary.
Zhao Fu narrowed his eyes slightly and once again ordered the use of first-grade ballistae, aiming them at those Shield Bearers.
Bolt after bolt flew through the sky with immense force, tracing arcs through the air before raining down. The Shield Bearers let out cries, and the yellow light emanating from the shield wall grew even brighter.
As countless arrows fell into the range of the yellow light, their speed visibly slowed. Most of their force was blocked by the yellow light, and the arrows that retained only a small portion of their power struck the shields with ringing clangs. None pierced the shields; all of them fell harmlessly to the ground.
"Use rune arrows!"
At Zhao Fu's command, the soldiers took out arrows one and a half meters long. Their shafts were covered in engraved lines, with a white rune stone set in the center and a small crystal embedded