Above the stretch of sea where the Eternal Night Continent had once stood.
Wave after wave of the strange tide covered the sea, launching an endless succession of fearless charges. Low over the water, a full five thousand strange dragons spread their bone wings and skimmed across the surface at high speed.
They hurtled in over the strange tide.
Not a single doppelganger wraith rode on their backs, which meant these strange dragons had no field commander and no need to return. They had received only one order.
Advance, advance, until they could advance no farther!
A continent had taken the place of the Eternal Night Continent, filling the gap left by its departure.
Now, thousands of enormous cannons slowly rose along its walls.
Their muzzles were square, making them look exceedingly strange, like stone pillars with square-cut ends. Their entire bodies gleamed with an obsidian blackness.
The next moment—
One stone cannon abruptly lit up.
A nearly translucent gray beam shot out, almost instantly finding a strange dragon in flight. In the very next instant, the dragon swerved and evaded it.
The gray beam pursued relentlessly, adjusting its aim with incredible speed.
But the strange dragon dodged even faster, weaving left and right as it rushed toward the Human Frontline with hardly any loss of speed!
At last!
Three breaths later.
The gray beam finally locked onto a strange dragon. The instant it did, it turned into a scarlet beam that seemed to pierce heaven and earth.
It pierced the strange dragon.
The dragon instantly lost all function and plunged into the sea.
At the same time.
The cannon towers along the walls activated almost in unison. Nearly translucent gray beams blasted out one after another, locking onto the masses of strange dragons hurtling low over the sea, above