After the city was breached, the two sides formally clashed. The tide-like system soldiers fiercely charged the Viet Guard army, while the leaderless Viet Guard forces grew even more chaotic, retreating again and again, utterly unable to mount any effective resistance.
Weapons clashed against weapons as the battlefield became utterly brutal. Cries of agony rang without end, blood sprayed everywhere, corpses carpeted the ground, and death spread at terrifying speed.
Viet Guard's people were continuously slaughtered. Of course, they fought back as well, but with little effect. The system soldiers' cultivation was far stronger than theirs, suppressing them in every regard.
The system City Lords also unleashed one powerful attack after another, bombarding Viet Guard's forces. Their overwhelming destructive power killed countless Viet Guard soldiers, plunging them into even greater chaos and filling them with despair before the many mighty City Lords.
In the end, most of Viet Guard's side perished. Of the original twenty-five million people, fewer than one million escaped, while all the rest were killed by the system forces. The system army's side also suffered four million losses.
However, judging from the battle, they had lost only four million men. This was a great victory. Eliminating their greatest threat for such a small price felt entirely worthwhile to every City Lord, though there were also aspects that puzzled them.
Viet Guard's people had seemed far too easy to kill—especially since there had not been a single City Lord among them. Had they happened upon a perfect opportunity, with all the Viet Guard City Lords absent, allowing them to pick up such a bargain?
Though they did not understand what had happened, the fact remained that they had destroyed Viet Guard, their greatest threat.
In the real world, Viet Guard's purge of those from the kind-hearted faction