It was already too late to dodge. Archmage Orphalian, Archmage Laduka, and the thirteen Great Mages could only throw up their magic shields at full strength, enclosing themselves within them.
Dozens of milky-white streaks struck the magic shields, but instead of the violent explosions everyone had expected, they barely made a sound. There were only dozens of faint pops, like bursting balloons, before the streaks scattered into countless specks of milky-white light, blanketing a vast stretch of the surrounding space.
"Damn!"
Archmage Orphalian and Archmage Laduka had barely managed to cry out before they felt the surrounding mana space become extremely unstable.
Even with their formidable magical strength, the two of them struggled to keep their magic shields intact. As for the thirteen Great Mages, whose strength fell far short of theirs, they were already swaying in the air. Never mind maintaining their magic shields-even staying aloft had become difficult.
Clearly, the attack they had just taken was similar in nature to the pale-blue attacks the Xinfei Merchant Guild Guard Corps had launched from Mero City's walls and those Mana Tanks. Both could severely disrupt mana space.
This form of attack seemed to have been developed by the Xinfei Merchant Guild specifically to target mages. Ordinary soldiers could not even sense the magic elements in the surrounding mana space, let alone suffer any effects from its disruption.
The difference was that the attacks triggered by the dozens of streaks fired from these Mana Airships were clearly on a higher level.
During the earlier attacks, the Great Mages in their group had remained relatively comfortable and unaffected. Now, however, even Archmage Orphalian and Archmage Laduka, both archmage-tier mages, had been severely affected. That alone showed how terrifyingly powerful this attack was.
"Orphalian, it looks like your earlier guess was wrong. This