When they saw the enormous earthen-yellow dome in the distance, the Mantid ground troops charged toward it with fearless fervor.
Anyone capable of erecting such a massive earth-based Defensive Barrier had to be the Black Ox Venerable!
Although the Black Ox Venerable was formidable, they were confident they could defeat him.
Even a powerful Wild God would have to retreat before an endless swarm.
Yet the powerhouse inside the earth-based Defensive Barrier was not the Black Ox Venerable they imagined.
It was a far more dangerous spellcaster.
Besides ordinary Earth Magic, Herad could also cast more effective advanced Earth Magic.
He did not choose to cast a directionally controllable Earthquake Spell.
The fissures caused by earthquakes could not kill Mantid in large numbers.
Gravity Magic was the lethal means of killing the insects invisibly.
The gravity traps scattered across the ground steadily devoured Mantid lives.
Looking at the battlefield strewn with corpses, the wildly advancing Mantid army calmed down.
Those invisible death traps left them at a loss.
Their companions' corpses could mark the boundaries of the death zones.
But those death zones could move.
Until they actually fell victim, no one knew whether a gravity trap had moved or whether it was heading their way.
The unlucky ones caught in the death traps struggled, trying to crawl out of the areas shrouded in extreme gravity.
Yet even raising their claws was difficult.
Even if they only needed to crawl one step to leave the area of extreme gravity.
That was a step they could never take.
This cruel sight broke all the Mantid.
Death was right before their eyes.
Yet they could not tell where it lay.
Their capital stood behind them, leaving them no room to retreat.
The sight of an army of millions unable to advance or