When the Three Grand Elders led the senior members of the Wizards' Association outside the tower, the two armies were already locked in battle fifteen hundred meters from the Wizard Tower.
The Wizards' Association's formation resembled a pair of concentric rings. After repeated charges by the vast numbers of players, the Imperial Guard Knight Corps had been forced to retreat beneath the Wizard Tower and form a circle, abandoning the other areas to guard the tower alone.
Inside the ring of knights stood the main force of Wizards, using the knights' protection to safely cast all manner of ranged spells at the players outside.
It was a perfectly reasonable defensive formation, shielding them from the surrounding Fools' attacks in every direction. Now, however, an elite force of over five hundred had abruptly entered the battlefield from the west.
Their formation took the distinct shape of an arrowhead. Like a sharp blade, they cut into the formation of knights and Wizards bit by bit, fighting their way inward.
At the tip of the "arrowhead" charged a girl wielding a scythe. Dressed in a red hooded outfit and carrying that blood-red scythe, she flashed through the battlefield like a butterfly weaving through flowers, moving so quickly that she left hazy afterimages along her path.
Controlling the Legendary Tier body, Lin Xue served as the spearhead of this assault force and plunged straight into the enemy formation.
The surrounding knights and Wizards naturally hurried to gather and block her.
In a large-scale battle between armies like this, an individual's strength was always limited. Even a Legendary Tier warrior could not easily tear through a line of knights with a single blade alone.
Sure enough, as the knights strengthened their defenses and tightened their lines, the assault force's advance immediately slowed.
Fortunately, Lin Xue