Before the cannonball could land, Benjamin led two teams of water mages to quickly take off into the air and take action together. They didn't have much time, so they could only do their best to condense thousands of layers of ice mirrors on the rune defense array.
However, the moment the layers of ice mirrors were formed, the Holy Light Cannonballs blasted directly up!
The holy light burst out at that moment, so solid that it seemed to have an entity, and instantly burned through the ice mirror blocking it. Then, the tsunami-like holy light tilted down and slapped hard on the rune defense formation. Suddenly, a deafening buzzing sound resounded throughout the city!
The bright light was so dazzling that even the royal army outside the city had to close their eyes, and the city was in chaos. Benjamin and the mages quickly put on their sunglasses and were barely able to see clearly.
"It seems... blocked?"
Benjamin frowned, held his breath, and looked carefully at the place where the rune defense array intersected with the holy light.
The moment the holy light struck up, the barrier trembled violently, and the contact surface became extremely distorted, like a piece of broken iron plate. Several cracks gradually spread under the powerful impact, growing more and more... However, when the barrier reached a certain endurance limit, the power of the cannonballs suddenly began to become ineffective. The holy light began to dissipate bit by bit, and the self-healing ability of the rune defense array took over again.
The free elements floating around were inspired by the runes and continuously poured into the barrier, quickly containing the spread of the cracks.
When the other mages saw this scene, they couldn't help but express a bit of surprise.
"You cannot stop the judgment of the gods!" However, at this moment, Grant's voice came from higher in the sky.
Accompanied by a huge spiritual power, the holy light that had a tendency to dissipate suddenly condensed again, just like a big hand appeared out of nowhere, suddenly kneading the scattered mud into a ball, and pressed it tightly on the barrier. Immediately afterwards, the piece of holy light and the barrier trembled violently, making a sharp and ear-piercing buzzing sound.
The next moment, boom!
An astonishing explosion appeared in the sky, like a grand fireworks, and the barrier was shattered on the spot. The elements of the six series formed into colorful fragments and splashed everywhere uncontrollably, almost covering the sky above the entire city. At that moment, the night was no longer dark. When people looked up, it was as if they were seeing an abstract painting with strange colors.
Fortunately, the location of the explosion was extremely high, and the aftermath did not impact the city below. It only shook Benjamin and all the mages flying in the sky.
"Damn it..."
Across the distance of several hundred meters and the splashing elemental fragments, Benjamin clenched his fists hard. As he fell, he stared at Grant who was also shaken away by the aftermath. The howling wind filled his ears, and the sound was like a knife scratching back and forth on the stone wall.
Grant was also looking at him, but his expression looked extremely calm.
As they continued to fall, they looked at each other for about two and a half seconds. Grant's face remained as unchanged as a statue, but Benjamin's expression changed again and again. However, at the last moment, he suddenly put away all his expressions, changing from anger to indifference, and even slightly raised the corners of his mouth with a somewhat mocking sneer.
The next second, he waved his hand vigorously!
"Fire!"
Following his words, the square in the center of Coster suddenly lit up with a white light. Immediately afterwards, six Holy Light Cannonballs slowly rose from there, once again drawing several beautiful arcs on the night.
Grant's indifferent expression finally changed.
Everything happened so suddenly. Six artillery shells flew past, brushing against a piece of sky above his head, and then fell straight into the charging team of the Royal Army. At that moment, six shells bloomed in the formation like six lotuses. The dazzling holy light expanded rapidly, and the soldiers were instantly swallowed up before they could escape. Heart-rending screams resounded throughout the sky.
—But in the blink of an eye, the Royal Army lost thousands of soldiers.
Grant didn't react until the shell exploded completely. While quickly retreating, he stretched his hand downwards, and several runes flashed from his fingertips. Then, the expanding holy light seemed to be restricted by some kind of force, stopped abruptly, and then began to slowly dissipate...
This move saved thousands of soldiers, but even so, the six horrifying craters on the ground made the faces of everyone in the church extremely ugly.
Grant turned his head and looked in the direction of Coster.
The emotions in his eyes flashed, he suppressed his anger, suddenly spoke, and shouted loudly:
"Continue the attack!"
At this moment, the rune defense array was destroyed and the entire city was finally exposed. The bombing just now made the Royal Army a little distracted, but the cavalry at the front was not affected. At this moment, they rushed directly to the North City Gate and charged towards the closed gate. After hearing the order, the follow-up troops immediately rushed forward.
Ladders, huge wooden piles...all the siege weapons that could be used were brought out. They bypassed the six deep pits blasted into the ground and swarmed over in dense numbers, like a swarm of man-eating ants starting to hunt.
Benjamin didn't panic - he knew there would be such a situation the moment the rune defense formation was breached. At that moment, he flew all the way down, waved his hand vigorously towards the crowded Black Nightmare Army, and shouted loudly: "Start counterattack! Guard the city gate!"
The battle officially became fierce at this moment.
The soldiers of the Black Nightmare Army had been waiting for a long time. Rolling stones, boiling water, rain of arrows... Like a torrential rain, it fell on the royal army in an instant. In order to attack the city, all the royal troops near the city gate huddled together, and even though they were wearing tight armor, they were suppressed quite hard. The ladder was kicked up as soon as it was set up, and the wooden pile hit the city gate, but was blocked by the people and sandbags behind the gate, unable to open it at all.
Many royal soldiers died directly under the rain of arrows, but soon, more soldiers rushed up, stepping on their bodies that were getting higher and higher, and got closer to the defenders on the city wall.
A large number of priests and mages started fighting over the city gate.
On one side is a uniform team, with holy light flowing through everyone's hands, converging into a huge shadow; on the other side is a scattered formation, with mages from all departments cooperating with each other to form small groups, and overwhelming magic flows from their hands. It gushes out like a colorful river.
The phantom of the Holy Light collided with the torrent of magic. After a brief stalemate, the Holy Light gained the upper hand.
"Everyone disperse! Disrupt their formation!"
When the torrent of magic was exhausted, the Holy Light phantom turned into hundreds of Holy Light bombs and flew towards them. When Joanna saw this, she immediately shouted so loudly. Following her words, the originally scattered formations of the mages instantly dispersed, dodged the incoming holy light bombs, scattered at all angles, turned and rushed towards the priest's team!
The sky above the North City Gate became extremely chaotic at this moment.