Chapter 841
The destruction of the elemental giants forced the troops of the Empire in a passive position . The casualties on their side began to mount, and multiple heroic assets started to suffer injuries or die due to the overwhelming numbers of the invading forces . Not even the cultivators in the fifth rank could avoid that fate .
That battle was leading to a defeat of the Empire .
The defenders had exhausted their defensive methods by then . Only a few shadows still lingered on the battlefield, but they weren't able to provide any significant assistance .
Retreating seemed the only option left, especially since the Empire knew that it had to preserve enough troops to fight the next battles . There were still a few valuable regions on the northeastern coast, and there was all the central area of the old continent to defend too!
Even the mighty Shandal Empire couldn't lose too many troops . Winning the war without their god might not be an option, but it wanted to survive as an organization nonetheless .
In their minds, the defenders didn't doubt for even a second that the Almighty would return and reestablish his organization as the most potent force in those Mortal Lands . Yet, hope didn't win wars, and the troops of the Empire knew that very well, which was why they still had one last trick to show to the invaders before leaving that territory .
The defenders started to retreat, and the invaders chased after them to inflict as many losses as possible . They knew that the Empire had immense reserves of manpower, so killing its heroic assets could only benefit the next battles .
However, the castles started to release a humming sound when all the invaders were above or near them . Those structures began to emit a soft light that increased in intensity with each passing second .
Noah's instincts screamed at that sight, and he shouted to warn his allies while he shot up in the sky to escape from the range of those buildings . "Retreat!"
Of course, the other heroic assets were soon able to sense that danger too, but their innate awareness wasn't enough to make them escape what would come next . Only a few experts in the fifth rank managed to follow Noah in time .
The castles exploded and engulfed the entire area with a destructive radiance that didn't let even the slowest cultivators of the Empire go . The sky above the mountain chain saw a multicolored light filling the whole region, with very few assets managing to escape that destructive halo .
Cries filled the battlefield, and charred corpses started to fall on the ground . The human cultivators in the area directly turned into ashes, and the ground cracked under the pressure generated by the detonation of the castles .
Noah watched everything from his safe position high in the sky . Danielle was with him, together with all the rank 5 cultivators of the Hive .
They had escaped even before their senses managed to feel that danger . The reason for that was their trust in Noah, which made them more reactive to his warning than the assets of the other forces .
There were other experts in the fifth rank with that group in the sky . Both the Council and the Elbas family had cultivators that had promptly followed Noah in his flight upward . Others, instead, had managed to escape from the range of the explosion by using specific movement techniques .
The losses though were immense .
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