Hong Yuan streaked through the air like a shooting star, raising a violent gale that bore down on the city walls.
The Izumo soldiers atop the walls were swept up like weeds. Amid terrified screams, they fell one after another and were smashed to pulp.
"Move! Move! Move!"
Armor and weapons clattered fiercely along the broad street. Under the shouts of two warriors in red armor, several hundred men hurried forward, their trampling feet making the stone pavement tremble.
"Hurry over there! We must hold the walls! Sakai Port belongs to us Izumo people-"
One red-armored warrior roared himself hoarse.
The next instant, a piercing wind howled overhead. The soldiers looked up in horror and saw a "comet" plummeting from the sky. With a fierce screech of friction against the air, a great mass of flames erupted.
The red-armored warrior's body suddenly burst apart. As flesh and blood splattered everywhere, the "comet" struck the ground, making the entire surface buckle and twist, heaving like waves.
Huge swaths of broken stone and brick shot in every direction from the "comet." In the blink of an eye, fragments struck soldier after soldier, piercing and tearing their bodies like thin paper.
Some had their heads burst open, red, green, and white splattering wildly. Of the several hundred men, over a hundred were killed or wounded on the spot, while others nearby were hurled away by the raging wind.
The buildings on either side of the street suffered too. Flying rubble punched holes through everything within dozens of yards, and the sound of collapsing structures rang out amid the alarmed cries of those inside.
Whoosh!
Before the survivors could react, a streak of clear light swept out from where the "comet" had landed, revealing Hong Yuan. Astral qi extended and contracted around him like