Like a summer downpour.
Fierce, violent, and brief.
It arrived when people were caught off guard, then vanished without a trace in an instant.
First University's School Guardian Formation did not take long to purge the "foreign object." In only a short time, dense lightning like rain turned the entire battlefield into scorched earth. The huge head at the heart of the attack was split into wisps of smoke the moment the "thunderstorm" descended, retreating back into the pyramid structure before crashing down alongside the out-of-control building onto the blackened ground.
Yet its course ran contrary to that of a summer downpour.
Before a summer downpour came silence and oppression; the low air pressure was almost suffocating. Afterward, the whole world was renewed, brimming with Life Force. Before the School Guardian Formation's "thunderstorm" fell, this battlefield deep within the silent forest could not exactly be called vibrant, but it was still filled with noisy Life Force. After the "thunderstorm," however, it became a land of death, its air stagnant and all sounds gone, as though it were the eve of a summer downpour.
The Illegal Laboratory's pyramid structure lay crookedly toppled on the ground, its exterior charred black, its walls broken and ruined, covered in scars. One could not help wondering whether anything living remained inside.
The four hunting teams from First University and Trident Sword were closest to it and suffered the worst collateral damage. Even though they had deployed Second Tier Battle Formations before the "thunderstorm" arrived, it was of no use. Several true forms condensed by the formations were blasted apart. Fortunately, the badges they wore from the school and Trident Sword partially mitigated the Guardian Formation's attacks, allowing them to retain a little mobility after the "thunderstorm."
The other two hunting teams at the edge of