Chapter 1113 - Festering Battlefield
Chapter 1113 Festering Battlefield
The defensive line had been breached!
It wasn’t just a gap in the defensive line for the floating city, but a total loss of control over the battlefield.
Today’s battle wasn’t a siege in the typical sense, but a slaughter party with the total annihilation of all living enemies as the ultimate goal.
The mutated beasts that were in a rush to make it past the defensive line were like a pack of hungry wolves. They had no time or effort to waste fighting with shepherd hounds. They would swarm forward the moment they found the hole in the sheep’s pen. They were eager to unleash their savagery and cruelty on the trembling sheep.
Who were the sheep, you ask?
Naturally, they were the arcane apprentices in the inner circle who were plenty in number yet lacked the power required to defend themselves!
Their positions had changed drastically after helping each other break into the floating city.
Illhoof’s talk of uniting their powers against the Fifth Ring Great Arcanist could be true or false.
Perhaps in his eyes, the scattered Fourth Grade adepts were easier prey compared to a Fifth Ring Great Arcanist!
Greem maintained his invisibility after splitting up with Adept Holly and Cherisha. He roamed the battlefield but did not collect any resources or treasures. His goal was to conceal his position from Illhoof to prevent him from having any ideas.
At a crossroads leading to the arcane palace.
Three Fourth Ring arcanists stood here in a triangle formation, surrounded by a circle of unusual arcane golems. They were defending this spot. Several hundred mutated beasts viciously charged at them, wave after wave.
The thick piles of corpses that had gathered around them were more than enough proof of the intensity of the fight.
The three arcanists were gathered around a spell pool that measured ten meters wide. The walls of the pool were made of white granite, and pure arcane energy rested within it. Various strange patterns and arcane runes were drawn on the walls of the spell pool. These runes resonated with the arcane energy within the pool every so often, causing it to shine with blinding radiance.
One had to admit that the spell pools were one of the greatest inventions of the Arcane Empire!
These spell pools might look inconspicuous, but they were the most important component of the floating cities’ security.
When the tens of thousands of arcanists and apprentices in the city had free time, they would come here to the spell pool to meditate and store arcane spell models that they had formed with their Spirit in the pool. This way, they could draw on the arcane models they had stored in the spell pools through the arcane web at any time.
Moreover, they could also make an overdraft of arcane spell models to an extent based on their authority!
That meant any arcanist that stepped onto the battlefield while remaining connected to the arcane web could unleash high-grade spells at minimal Spirit cost. Moreover, these spells were instantly cast.
The three arcanists with their backs turned to the spell pool were able to unleash a barrage of fast and terrifying high-grade spells with a single wave of their staffs. It was this bottomless supply of high-grade arcane magic that allowed the arcane golems to fend off the hundreds of mutated beasts despite their inferior numbers.
However, when the fighting was at its most intense and ferocious, the floating city trembled lightly. The arcane barriers on all the essential arcane towers and facilities flickered slightly and mysteriously vanished.
A loud cracking sound could be heard as a long crack also appeared on the spell pool that the three Fourth Ring arcanist had been defending. A torrent of arcane energy spewed forth from the break, creating a beautiful, magical rainbow above the pool.
They weren’t the only place where an incident had occurred. Every single arcane tower and spell pool throughout the city had malfunctioned at the same instant.
This terrifying sight instantly caused the Fourth Ring arcanists’ expressions to change. One of them even cried out in surprise.
“Dammit! Something must have happened to the energy core!”
The energy core was the heart of the floating city. Should anything ever happen to it, the arcane energy supply throughout the floating city would be cut off.
A small incident would result in the current situation, where all the arcane facilities powered down due to the lack of energy. With a severe event, the floating city would lose its ability to fly. It would crash to the ground, just like the other floating cities that had fallen.
Consequently, the arcanists couldn’t help but start panicking when they sensed the arcane barriers vanish.
How were they supposed to fight against this endless horde of enemies without arcane barriers, spell pools, and magic pools?
While they were stunned by what had happened, several violent earth spikes emerged from below, striking at them with the force of a storm.