Now that they were facing the Shadow King directly, being able to see the players was no longer much use.
Withered Branch, who led the charge, and the Redstone Empire's Demon-Hunting Princess were the main fighting force this time.
Around two hundred Phantom Attendants, radiating a nightmare aura from head to toe, followed beside Withered Branch.
Beside the Demon-Hunting Princess stood a group of striking warriors clad in gold-and-red Powered Armor, with a pair of featherlike wings on their backs.
These warriors carried no ranged weapons on their bodies. Each held a spear in one hand and a short sword in the other.
They also carried more than a dozen gold-and-red javelins on their backs.
These striking winged warriors were the World Guardians, the most elite and powerful troops in the Redstone Empire.
Every piece of equipment these World Guardians wore had been forged from World Stone.
The warriors operating this armor were all perfect soldiers created through the most advanced genetic engineering.
Using the World Stone they wore, they could unleash immensely powerful spatial abilities and construct indestructible barriers.
More importantly, these World Guardians were perfectly compatible with the vast majority of powers. They could even directly wield the Dreamwalker's nightmare power.
The World Guardians' overall combat strength was several tiers above even the new generation of Human Emperor Heavenly Soldiers.
Precisely because they were so elite, the Demon-Hunting Princess currently had only thirty of them at her side.
Leo Stowe was among those thirty.
Thanks to his outstanding performance in previous battles and his time as a frontline adviser, Leo Stowe had now become one of the Demon-Hunting Princess's personal guards.
He served as her temporary second-in-command for this battle.
Aside from these two leaders, there were also ten immensely powerful Cinderfolk summoned through sacrifices by the Molten