"Failed?! How could..."
Before he could finish, the sky above them suddenly split open in an orderly pattern, revealing a multitude of honeycomb-like hexagonal lattices.
Everyone froze.
A light breeze blew past, and the hexagonal lattices dividing the sky bobbed up and down with it.
Suddenly, attacks of Ice, Fire, Thunder, and Poison erupted from every lattice, pouring down on the camp all at once.
"Quick, activate the Origin Shields!"
More than a dozen soldiers in armor quickly climbed to high points around the camp and raised both hands above their heads.
In an instant, a golden Light Shield appeared above their hands, stretching between the ground and the countless attacks.
The attacks rained down like a furious storm, only to be intercepted by the golden Light Shield.
The people in the camp had just breathed a sigh of relief when they realized the Light Shield was rapidly melting under the barrage.
One soldier holding up the Light Shield immediately turned and shouted, "Battalion commander, this is bad! It's sequence level suppression!"
The commander furrowed his brow. "Level suppression? Don't panic. Two fists can't beat four hands. One person can't break a defensive shield maintained by dozens of us. Can you tell which attack came from a sequence level six enemy?"
The soldier holding up the Light Shield roared in despair, "Every single one!"
Whoosh-
The moment he finished speaking, the Light Shield melted away completely, and the attacks streaming through the lattices plummeted down.
Boom, boom, boom-
Light of every color flashed all around as billowing dust and smoke engulfed the entire camp, which sprawled across roughly a kilometer.
The attacks continued for a dozen seconds or so before abruptly stopping.
Then the lattices in the air slowly vanished, and the sky became whole again.
The dust and smoke