Firepower from Another Dimension

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Six Pig-Iron Heavy Cannons roared at once, shaking the entire North Wall.

High overhead, six shells reached the peaks of their arcs and suddenly burst open.

High pressure ripped apart their pig-iron casings, and three clouds of deathly white, flame-lit mist billowed above the wolves' den.

Highly concentrated Holy Fluid, fine Holy Silver Powder, and alchemical acid mingled into a deadly, murky rain that poured straight onto the charging Beast Tide below.

The wolves at the front of the charge plunged headlong into that invisible killing ground.

The instant the liquid touched their fur, their flesh began to hiss and smoke.

Screams tore through the Gray Fog. The fastest wolves lost their footing and tumbled into the Frozen Tundra.

Their bone plates burned black. Their eyes and nasal passages rotted first, and they thrashed and clawed at the ground, throwing the wolves behind them into chaos.

The Fogfall Shells had gouged a layer from the once-unified tide of wolves.

Blinded across much of the front line, the wolves lost their bearings and began biting and crashing into one another. Those behind could not stop in time and kept surging forward over the mangled flesh of their own kind.

The charging formation, once driving toward the wall like a sword, collapsed into a sprawling pileup.

The Beast Tide's advance slowed to a crawl, and the ground outside the defenses became a bloody quagmire.

But those truly torn apart by the volley were the First and Second Tier wolves.

The three Fanged Wolf Kings at the front had only had their bone plates charred and suffered a few burns. The damage was nowhere near fatal.

The Gray-Maned She-Wolf farther back merely retreated to one side, growling low as she continued driving the pack forward.

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