Blood spattered everywhere, alongside countless mangled corpses. There were women who had been raped and murdered, and children lying in pools of blood. The scene was brutally bloody, as terrifying as a living hell.
Because the soldiers and City Lords were absent, when the Fish Scale people stormed into the cities, the energy shields over the City Lord Halls activated automatically, protecting the cities on their own.
A system main city's protective barrier could withstand the sustained attacks of a dozen or so City Lords and several hundred thousand soldiers without issue. But against dozens of City Lords or several million soldiers, its defenses could still be shattered easily. Once the barrier broke, the city would fall with it.
On the other battlefield, the human City Lords were battling the Fish Scale City Lords. When their cities were seized, the power of their City Lord Seals naturally vanished. City Lords who lost the power of their City Lord Seals were, with virtually no exception, slain in a single move by the Fish Scale City Lords.
Once a City Lord died, the system soldiers' morale plummeted. Some no longer had any heart to fight, for now that their City Lord was dead, their families and friends were being slaughtered by others.
Defeat on the human side was already beyond salvage. As City Lord after City Lord died, the system armies that served as their main force suffered as though grievously wounded, their strength plummeting. It was not merely because the City Lords had died—these armies also possessed all kinds of attributes bestowed by their cities.
Yet the Fish Scale people seized this chance to attack even more fiercely. Naturally, the human side could hold on even less, and the battle had nearly become a one-sided rout.
At this point, without anyone