Published: February 12, 2025
Until the flares were ignited, the people of the Holy City, including many evolvers from Cloud Summit, believed they were merely illumination devices.
However, when they were lit, burned, and transformed into countless little sparks falling down, they realized that these were more than just flares; they were a weapon.
As these sparks descended, they almost covered half of the Holy City. They floated down gently, uniformly distributed over the sky of the Holy City, and even the brightening sun could not conceal the light they emitted.
At that moment, the residents of the Holy City discovered that the city gates were blocked and began to attack. When the battle team departed, the gates were blocked with special materials produced in Cloud Summit, smeared with the juice of a mutated plant that solidified in the wind, proving to be several times stronger than reinforced concrete.
Of course, for evolvers, such fortifications were not particularly daunting; if they couldn’t break through once, they would keep trying.
However, Cloud Summit did not intend to permanently imprison them in the Holy City; they only needed to be delayed for a while.
The real killing move was those falling sparks in the sky.
Among the trapped residents of the Holy City, there were indeed some powerful individuals or those with special means; for instance, several people could jump very high and far, even surpassing the city walls, relying on either equipment or their innate skills.
Unfortunately, when they saw the vast world outside the city, the sound of gunfire signaled the end of their lives.
Li Qiang and his subordinates’ precise sniping was the nemesis of every evolver without strong bulletproof gear.
Many residents of the Holy City wanted to climb the city walls and jump down, or relied on their brief flight abilities and battle beasts, but they too faced attacks from Cloud Summit outside.
Only a very few individuals with bizarre abilities, such as space manipulation or teleportation, managed to escape the Holy City, leaving Cloud Summit helpless.
At that moment, the little sparks all landed and, upon touching the ground of the Holy City, erupted into a massive fire.
The flames resembled the oblivion rune that Mo Ye had used earlier, pure white in color, but the power they emitted was so immense that even the fire elemental dragon Yangos felt overwhelmed, ascending significantly with Ye Zhongming.
Ye Zhongming gazed down; Abba and Said were gravely wounded and unable to move, the first to be engulfed by the white flames. They opened their mouths in horror to scream, but there was no opportunity left.
Having been previously defeated, they no longer had any protection, and in their severely injured state, they had lost all their abilities. Once invincible, they were now reduced to awaiting death in despair.
These flares were a one-time-use golden equipment, capable of providing nearly twenty hours of illumination time. Afterward, the other part of the equipment, an iron bow, could activate them to create a sea of flames within a set range, with longer burning times resulting in higher damage.
During the effective burning time of one hour, although it started okay, in the last few minutes, even ninth-level life could not endure it and would be burned alive.
It seemed powerful, but in reality, it was somewhat useless since such flames could not be moved; they could only burn within the pre-set range outlined by the flares.
Needless to say, even first-level life forms could leave before the burning commenced.
This was a piece of equipment with significant limitations, and Ye Zhongming used it here.
Yes, even without the Holy Maiden's request, Ye Zhongming had never intended to spare the people in the Holy City from the beginning.
Cruel? Inhumane? Perhaps.
Ye Zhongming never pondered such things; he only knew that if one day Cloud Summit weakened and he no longer remained powerful, he would face treatment a thousand times more vicious than this!
Outside the city, the Cloud Summit battle team was mercilessly slaughtering the evolvers who kept leaping down from the city walls; it took only a few minutes after the flames ignited for them to realize the severity of the situation.