Prelude to the Decisive Battle

"Hiss..."

Although they had long prepared themselves mentally, everyone still drew a sharp breath when they saw it with their own eyes.

The boundless flock of birds resembled a dark sky curtain draped down to the earth. From afar, it seemed to sever heaven from earth, and it spread toward Fanyu Royal City at tremendous speed, its momentum like a flood drowning the world.

Closer!

Closer!

"Flap, flap..."

The dense, thunderous beating of wings sounded like rolling thunder.

Hawks, rocs, eagles, falcons, swallows, sparrows, doves, herons...

Almost every kind of bird they recognized could be found among them, only considerably larger than they knew them to be. Clearly, they possessed considerable killing power; not a single kind could be taken lightly.

Even more of the birds were completely unfamiliar. After all, over countless years, time had flowed on, blue seas had become mulberry fields, and innumerable strange breeds, mutations, hybrids, and other bizarre creatures had emerged.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."

The avian army flew within several miles of Fanyu Royal City, but instead of attacking directly as everyone had expected, it halted there...

Black specks fell like rain...

Amid a barrage of clattering sounds, countless rocks piled up several miles outside Fanyu Royal City, forming a disorderly stone wall dozens of miles long.

Immediately afterward, countless birds swooped down, their shapes changing dramatically in midair before they landed...

They turned into countless human figures and began working on both sides of the stone wall, dressing and stacking the rocks!

Before long, a stone wall several meters wide and high and dozens of miles long arose, comparable to the walls of a small city. As birds continued arriving and landing in human form, the wall kept growing wider, taller, and thicker...

"Damn... they can do that?!"

"Fuck! That's cheating! What kind of