The wind moaned atop the Spirit Tamer Great Wall.
The roars of monsters crashing against the walls like a tide had vanished, replaced by a suffocating silence.
That silence unsettled everyone more than any clamor could.
The Contract Spirit Masters and Contract Spirits stationed on the wall found their palms sweating, even those veterans who had survived countless bloody battles.
They wore heavy armor and gripped standardized weapons, but nothing could hide the tension in their eyes.
Everyone knew this was merely the calm before the storm.
Two World-Class Wanted Bosses, Tyrant and Decay, were heading toward Great Xia.
According to the intelligence sent back from New Mountain City in the United States, those two monsters possessed utterly terrifying strength.
SSR-tier Contract Spirits could not even put up a decent fight against them. They were simply fodder.
The defensive weapons packed the walls, and the energy shields shone brilliantly, but everyone present understood.
Against enemies of that caliber, these defenses they took such pride in would accomplish next to nothing.
The outcome of this battle did not depend on them at all. It depended on the three URs who stood at the pinnacle of Great Xia.
Aside from Feng Luan, who had just arrived, and Haotian, who was still on his way.
Only Xia Yuan stood alone upon the foremost battlements.
Xia Yuan remained in his blood-red armored form, Madara Uchiha's figure standing as straight as a pine.
His arms folded across his chest, he gazed impassively with his Rinnegan at the boundless wilderness ahead, a desert forever shrouded in a murky yellow storm.
Time ticked by, and the sun slowly sank westward, stretching the wall's shadow far across the ground.
Unfortunately, there was still no movement at the far end of the desert.
Tyrant and Decay seemed to have