While Mo Xie battled the Black Vatican, the Military Mages had withdrawn from the Outer City walls to the Inner City, where they directed the crowds into the Safe Barrier as quickly as possible.
Behind them, the Outer City walls had all but vanished. The Undead Army had done nothing but surge through, darkening heaven and earth until it seemed to blanket the entire world.
The Inner City, enclosed by its golden Barrier, had become a lone island in an endless black ocean. Waves towered over it, blotting out the sky. The Inner City trembled on the brink of being swallowed!
On the walls, the Military Mages who had retreated stood in row after row. No matter their rank, profound terror filled their eyes.
They were here... They had finally come!
From atop the high walls, they watched the Undead Army sweep past the Outer City walls and bear down on the Inner City.
The Undead's roars shook the Inner City violently, yet the world seemed deathly still. The Undead Ocean surged forward, a mass of towering flesh, mounds of bone, and a sea of ghosts so terrifying it felt as though their hearts would burst!
Thankfully, the residents of the Outer City had managed to evacuate to the Inner City for shelter. Otherwise, no one could have survived an Undead calamity this dense.
At the north gate, the crowd looked as fine as grains of sand, inching through the entrance. Many still had not entered the Safe Barrier, while the black tide was already devouring the Outer City. The end of the world was upon them!!!
In the past, anyone standing on the walls could look out over a flourishing city. Its colors were not as bright or lavish as those of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, or Shenzhen, but the