The biggest change after the merger of the calamities and the Magi was that the speed of their advancement had increased.
According to secret intelligence, the World of Gods, the Abyss World, the Titan Gold Family, the Star Alliance, and other powerful astral beings had invaded the Morian Plane. Therefore, every day they stayed here was a huge risk.
With such a huge and profitable target like the floating city, there were definitely more than one or two that had their eyes on them. Moreover, among the missions given by the A Squadron, attacking the floating city at Auspicious View Gardens was the most important mission of this trip.
Therefore, on the seventh day after forming an alliance with the Lesser Lord of Calamities, Grimm and his party rushed to the floating city day and night.
The floating city of today was vastly different from what it had been in the past.
There were obviously fewer towering arcane towers, and even the number of necessary arcane watchtowers had been reduced to an extremely low level.
Below the floating city's massive body was a golden grassland where countless refugees from all directions gathered. They struggled to climb onto the floating discs, trying to hide in the floating city that had a sturdy arcane barrier.
A large number of arcanists and apprentices were yelling and commanding the tall arcane puppets to maintain the order in this place. Among the crowd, there was also a long line of carriages and horses, transporting all kinds of materials and supplies that the floating city urgently needed.
When Grimm, Heli, and Qiu Lisha climbed up a small hill and watched everything from afar, a large group of mutated beasts climbed over the hills, crossed the grassland, and began to appear below the floating city.
Immediately, the people gathered below the floating city, waiting for the floating discs to arrive, began to panic.
Countless men, women, old, and young screamed in fear, desperately fleeing into the distance. The frightened horses ran around in the crowd, making the situation more and more difficult to control.
A few floating discs that had landed on the ground and were carrying supplies and people quickly rose up, wobbling as they flew towards the floating city. There were still many people clinging to the edge of the discs, screaming and crying for help.
Finally, when the discs rose into the sky, the people clinging to the edge were exhausted, screaming and falling from the sky one by one.
The arcanists and apprentices who stayed on the ground to control the situation had nowhere to run. They could only desperately command the arcane puppets to form a circle, protecting themselves and some of the refugees inside.
Grim could clearly see that the natives on the other side were like a swarm of ants. Outside of them, a black wave was rapidly approaching.
There were all kinds of mutated beasts, and all of them were vicious and cruel.
Thus, as soon as the two sides made contact, a clear line of blood erupted from the front of the battlefield.
This place was close to the floating city, so the number of apprentices who had mastered basic Arcana Techniques had also increased. Amidst the crowd, energy balls of various colors rained down on the group of mutated beasts, exploding into flesh and blood and countless broken limbs.
However, how could this bit of elemental attack stop the attacks of the Mutated Beasts?
Like bubbles raised by an enormous tide, before anybody could cheer for them, the crazy aberrant beasts had lunged into the crowd and taught the arcanists a good lesson with their fierce bites and sharp claws.
Creak creak creak …
Three-meter-tall arcane puppets marched forward with heavy footsteps, pushing through the crowd and appearing in front of the group of mutated beasts. They were not metal puppets, but arcana creations that had been activated.
There were not many metal parts on their bodies, and their entire bodies were pieced together by waves of arcana energy. There were only a few thin metal rings in a few key areas, binding the arcana energy into a humanoid form.
After such a transformation, the physical attack and defense of the arcane puppets would definitely be greatly reduced, but they would strangely have the ability to cast arcana spells.
As they strode forward, they raised their hands and shot out energy balls, the power of which was as high as eighty or ninety degrees. This kind of attack power was equal to that of a normal Grade 1 wizard, but it was faster, almost one ball every two seconds.
Facing this group of arcane puppets, the leaders of the group of mutated beasts immediately went berserk, charging into the crowd while enduring their attacks, starting a massacre.
This batch of less than thirty arcane puppets did not even last for a quarter of an hour before they were quickly destroyed.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the arcanists all leaped up, wanting to escape back to the floating city before the swarm of mutated beasts surrounded them.
Unfortunately, they had acted a little too late!
There was also a large number of flying beasts in the horde. They either had eagle wings or elytra wings on their backs. When they saw that the Arcana Masters were trying to escape, they immediately flapped their wings and flew into the sky, surrounding them tightly.
A few dazzling arcana spells swept past, and a dozen black-and-red beasts fell from the sky, wailing in pain. However, the arcanists who were surrounded could not break out of the encirclement. In the end, their external shields were broken, and after a series of fierce tearing and biting, they were cut into pieces, turning into bloody corpses.
Only at this moment did the floating city finally react.
A dozen arcane watchtowers circled around and suddenly descended from the clouds, pouring a terrifying torrent of arcane spells onto the most densely packed and closest areas of the swarm of mutated beasts.
Naturally, the mutated beasts would not give up so easily. A large number of flying mutated beasts soared into the sky, quickly entangling with the arcane watchtowers.
Arcanists might be very weak individually, unable to fight the mutated beasts head-on. But once they hid in the arcane watchtowers, with the support of the arcane facilities, their individual strength was instantly amplified more than ten times.
Even though there weren't many high-level Arcana Masters guarding the dozen or so Arcana Guard Towers, the sturdy towers and the abundant Arcana Techniques within them were still able to hold their own against the horde of mutated beasts.
In an instant, in the sky, all kinds of energy light swept across the horizon, and corpses fell like rain.
Xie Hou, who was hiding among the mutated beasts, did not care about the casualties of his subordinates, but he could not let them die here for nothing.
Therefore, while the arcane watchtowers were slaughtering the mutated beasts, the earth trembled, the soil cracked, and three huge stone puppets, each more than ten meters tall, drilled out from the ground.
As soon as these stone puppets appeared, they raised their beehive-like stone heads, raised their arms high, and condensed a huge stone between their palms. Then, with a wave of their arms, they smashed the flying arcane watchtowers with a whoosh.
One of the arcane watchtowers could not dodge in time and was hit by three huge stones at the same time, immediately swaying and falling from the sky.
The mutated beasts on the ground that were being trampled miserably roared as they surrounded it, quickly drowning it in the black beast tide.
The remaining arcane watchtowers were furious when they saw this. Four of them circled down and kept attacking the beasts that had piled up like a small mountain, trying to save their comrades. At the same time, more sentry towers released rapid lightning chains, which crazily struck at the three huge stone puppets.
These three stone puppets were all at the pinnacle of Grade 2. Naturally, they could not be destroyed by mere energy lightning chains. The rocks on the surface of their bodies were scorched black, and many of them collapsed like mudslides. However, with a flash of yellow elemental light, a large amount of earth elemental energy flowed along their legs to the damaged parts of their bodies, quickly solidifying into a new layer of rock skin.
As such, the three stone puppets were able to endure the attacks of the arcane watchtowers.
The arcane watchtowers became even more anxious when they saw this. They actually hovered in the air and began to communicate with the floating city above, guiding the real arcane watchtowers to attack even more fiercely.
Seeing such a great opportunity, how could Xie Hou let it go so easily?
He suddenly drilled out of the soil beneath the arcane watchtowers, raised his head and roared, using a huge yellowish-brown light to cover the four arcane watchtowers.
Gravity Ring!
A gravity ring personally released by a Grade 4 Lesser Disaster Lord!
The four Arcane Guard Towers immediately began to tremble, and they began to slide down continuously.
Seeing that the situation was bad, the Arcanists inside hurriedly poured even more arcane energy into the floating rings at the base of the watchtowers. Only then did they barely manage to resist the powerful pull of gravity, preventing themselves from falling from the sky.
The Arcanists panicked when they suddenly discovered the figure of the Grade 4 Lesser Disaster Lord. They shook the watchtowers, doing their best to break free from the gravity ring's influence. At the same time, they unleashed one arcane attack after another, raining down on the enemy.
However, just as the arcane watchtowers and the gravity ring were locked in a stalemate, a deep-colored fireball streaked across the sky and struck the watchtowers.
This time, the arcane watchtowers could no longer maintain their stability. One by one, they spun and fell from the sky, black smoke rising from their bodies.
Several thousand meters away, Grim, who had transformed into a tall, flaming man, slowly stepped onto the battlefield with heavy footsteps. Under the ferocious attacks of his fireballs, the arcane watchtowers could not escape his attack range in time. One by one, they were shot down from the sky.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the last two remaining arcane watchtowers turned around and tried to escape back to the floating city, only to be punched by a mysterious guy who descended from the sky, wrapped in strange silver armor, one after another, and smashed them straight into the sky.
Without the advantage of flying, once the arcane watchtowers fell to the ground, they would no longer be able to break free from the encirclement of the mutated beasts.
Seeing that his two 'allies' were quite capable and did not play any tricks, the Lesser Disaster Lord nodded in satisfaction.
He had come here to reap the lives and souls of the floating city. How could he allow himself to be trapped on the ground?
The Lesser Disaster Lord stood proudly on the ground, and for the first time, he began to use the earth elemental energy in his body. As he opened his mouth, all the earth elemental energy in the ground began to gather around his body.
In the next second, a thick stone pillar shot up into the sky, carrying the evil hoof up into the sky.
The mutated beasts that could fly flapped their wings, circling around the stone pillars as they quickly flew above the clouds. Even more mutated beasts leaped up and used their sharp claws to climb onto the stone pillars, fighting to be the first to charge towards the floating city.
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