"Northbank Defense Line, Section One is completely intact."
"Northbank Defense Line, Section Two is completely intact."
"Northbank Defense Line..."
The people in charge of each sector were reporting on the Northbank Defense Line's condition after last night. Eventually, all those reports would reach Wang Kui, who would then report to Chen Fan.
Standing atop the Northbank Defense Line's wall, Chen Fan watched the people collecting eerie stones outside in the pouring rain beneath the Fish-Belly White dawn sky. After listening to Wang Kui's report, he paused before speaking.
"Send Mortal Domain members out immediately. Establish permanent stations at Defense Line Seven and the Yellow Springs Pass Defense Line to relay information as soon as possible."
"And survey and mark out the areas beyond Defense Line Seven and the Yellow Springs Pass Defense Line."
"When a powerful enemy attacks, they must immediately identify precise bombardment targets."
Supporting the Yellow Springs Pass Defense Line this time had consumed fifty-five Sky-Piercing Pillars in total. The Mortal Domain had only accumulated ninety-eight over the past few years, and a single relief operation had used up nearly more than half.
The main reason was that he hadn't known the situation at the Yellow Springs Pass Defense Line at the outset.
Nor had he known exactly which areas to bombard.
He could only fire blindly, using saturation bombardment.
It was an extremely wasteful approach. At first, he hadn't even known how long the Strange Tide would take to refill a cleared area. He could only estimate an interval of sixty breaths himself.
And—
The Sky-Piercing Pillar was a strategic weapon, not a permanent defensive emplacement. It wasn't meant for clearing Strange Tides, but for providing support at extraordinary speed, delivering help when it was desperately needed.
This time, however, he had used the Sky-Piercing Pillars as