"Vrrrr-"
Piercing sonic booms instantly filled the air around Chen Gongrang.
Several massive attack skills hurtled toward his position.
A dense barrage of area attacks in every color filled his entire field of vision.
They also engulfed the young woman and every invader who had come with her, trapping them within this block of the 316th War Readiness Zone.
The last time Margaret and her people had ambushed the Safe Zone, they had faced only a hastily mounted counterattack. Although the War Readiness Zone had successfully mobilized all its Sequence Ability Users, it had still failed to strike effectively.
This time, however, the force attacking them was an extermination unit assembled from the finest veterans drawn from the various legions. What awaited them was a blade the entire Safe Zone had spent a full month sharpening.
Every participant in the battle had a Sequence Level above three.
They were no pampered ornaments whose strength had been bought with family resources, but genuine one-in-a-thousand elites, experts with immense combat experience.
Under Wei Rulai and Yan Bunan's personal command and training, and with specialized tactics and equipment improvements from leading scholars such as Li Tianming and Zhang Kuang, this elite force of nearly a hundred thousand had perfected the coordination between mobile defensive fortresses and concentrated fire.
Here, the power of a skill unleashed by a soldier in coordination with the companions around them could rival the combined strength of three to five ability users of the same rank.
And there were a hundred thousand soldiers here.
Quantity had transformed into quality.
Chen Gongrang's move to use himself as bait had struck precisely at the invaders' greatest advantage-their high-speed movement.
He had staked his own life to lure these powerful foes, who otherwise could never have been pinned down, into a trap