I can see experience bars after being transported to another world.

Taking risks is a common practice in the Empire. After returning, he held an inspection meeting and found that many nobles had been infected. He then sent most of his family's businesses and core personnel out of the city along with the Night's Watch's mission to "send people away".

Long before the incident at Bronze City, he had already moved everything that needed to be moved.

Meanwhile, the scumbags below, who are colluding with the Gray Contract Society, still haven't figured things out and are still clamoring to make a clean getaway and clinging to their meager fortunes.

That's ridiculous.

Helmut, leaning on the railing, uttered his last words.

"You all had better pray that the Empire wins this battle. Otherwise, you will all be buried with me."

After saying that, he turned around, sat back down in his chair, and closed his eyes.

The hall below fell silent again. Even the baron who had been shouting the loudest earlier shrank back and sat back down obediently, not daring to utter another sound.

The breathing room that Bronze City gave the Night Watchmen was shorter than Lu Yuan had imagined.

After the Guardians cleared away the special individuals, ghouls, and the spreading flesh, their power did not recede.

Even standing inside the branch, Lu Yuan could feel the dark aura emanating outwards, heading directly towards the inner city walls.

Although most of the dark red flesh on the city wall had been torn apart by the black eyeballs, even more flesh continued to surge up from below, taking over the black eyeballs one by one.

The guards are suppressing the city walls.

The city walls are the roots of the spreading flesh and blood. As long as the spread can be slowed down, Bronze City will have some breathing room.

But that kind of suppression was not easy.

On the horizon, pitch-black eyes and dark red flesh are locked in a fierce struggle on the surface of the city wall. One side pushes open, while the other pushes up, back and forth, with no clear winner.

Unlike Lu Yuan, who was stationed at the branch office, Klaus, who was also settling residents outside, noticed things more clearly.

Klaus stood at the entrance of the branch office, looking towards the inner city wall, his expression gradually darkening.

The flesh and blood that had been occupied by the dark eyeballs suddenly erupted at the same moment.

The spread of the dark red color suddenly accelerated, and the black eyeballs were pushed up from below by flesh and blood, shattering and flying away one by one like glass marbles, splattering out nauseating mucus.

The flesh and blood on the surface of the city wall surged and churned, and the flesh and blood that seeped out from the cracks was enveloped in a large amount of golden light.

The light was extremely eerie, its golden hue radiating a strong sense of malice.

Meanwhile, Lu Yuan, who was still in the Hope Room and was just about to leave, suddenly saw gray and white text appear in front of him.

[Environmental awareness detected. A forbidden aura has been detected. Please move away immediately.]

Lu Yuan's heart clenched.

He's at the Night's Watch branch right now, how could he possibly have this kind of aura? Could it be that the flesh and blood below have completely surged up?

Before he could figure it out, the inner city walls had already begun to be raised.

The bronze city walls, now completely transformed into flesh and blood, are growing upwards at a visible rate.

The city wall, originally twenty meters high, grew to ten meters, twenty meters, and thirty meters as dark red flesh and blood continuously replaced, rose, piled up, and climbed, its height increasing several times in a few breaths, approaching the spire of the Tower of Learning.

The towering walls of flesh and blood blocked out most of the sky, casting shadows that stretched from the inner city all the way to the edge of the outer city.

Lu Yuan had already locked the door to Hope's room and went outside.

As soon as he stepped out of the logistics area, he looked up and saw that enormous wall of flesh and blood that blotted out the sky.

Looking at the scene before him, a sense of unease began to stir within him.

It was at this moment that Lu Yuan finally realized that it was the aura of the fifth fragment, though it was extremely faint.

The flesh and blood at the base of the already raised city wall began to spread towards the outer city.

The dark red tissue spread out along the ground and pushed straight toward the branch.

Between the churning flesh and blood, numerous plant roots emerged, mingling with the flesh and blood as they expanded wildly outwards.

Far away in the direction of the Tower of Learning, the guardian's dark aura suddenly contracted.

Lu Yuan could feel the force suppressing the city wall suddenly break in that instant, as the guardians abandoned their suppression of the city wall.

What Lu Yuan didn't know was that the guardians had no choice but to give up.

The power unleashed by the wall of flesh and blood far exceeded his tolerance limit. If he were to withstand the backlash head-on, he probably wouldn't last long enough to make a second move.

Inside the Tower of Learning, the guardian's aura had largely dissipated, and the several eyeballs that had been hovering in mid-air had completely shrunk back around his body.

The old man sat in a chair, his white hair hanging down to the side of his face, and his expression was somewhat unpleasant.

The gray head of the person on the wall emerged from the darkness, and the features formed by the condensed mist were taut.

It also sensed the malice surging from the depths of the flesh-and-blood city wall, so intense that both the guardians and those on the wall could clearly perceive it.

That thing was conscious and purposeful, and it was attacking the Tower of Learning, keeping an eye on the two of them.

Clearly, the two of them working together to clear the area had angered it, and the thing below was about to retaliate.

The guardians could sense a massive surge of flesh and blood spreading toward the Tower of Learning.

The figure on the wall also sensed it; its gray head trembled slightly, and for the first time, its features, formed by condensed mist, revealed an expression that was almost one of fear.

The realization that it had gone from being the operator to the prey made it look very unpleasant.

In the corner, the visitor from the mist, who had drifted in at some unknown time, hung quietly in the shadow of the main tower.

It made no sound and made no movement.

But then it suddenly spoke, its voice light and airy, carrying a sense of peace.

"You can't stop it."

Both the guards and the people on the wall looked at it.

The voice was neither malicious nor sarcastic; it was simply the calmness of an observer stating facts.

The guard did not answer.

He knew better than anyone how far he had fallen; this battle shouldn't have dragged on any longer.

But that overwhelming mass of flesh and blood was already pressing down on the Tower of Learning; if he didn't intervene, he might die.

His dark aura began to rise again, forcing him to make one more move.

The person on the wall had no room to retreat; its skull was at the top of the tower, and if its flesh and blood spread to the Tower of Learning, it would be the first to suffer.

The two joined forces once again. Gray mist and pitch-black energy surged from the Tower of Learning, crashing down upon the flesh-and-blood wall that had now blotted out the sky.

But this time, their strength hit a wall.

The malice surging from the flesh and blood wall condensed into a barrier of gold and black, blocking out all the dark eyeballs and gray mist.

The guardian's eyeballs struck the barrier, shattering one after another, with dark fragments falling from the sky.

The gray mist on the wall was forcefully crushed back by the barrier. The gray mist quickly dissipated in front of the golden-black light. Its power was being compressed, squeezed from all directions into an increasingly smaller area.

The guard's expression turned extremely ugly.

His dark aura had begun to show signs of instability, fluctuating wildly, clearly approaching its limit.

The gray head of the person on the wall shrank behind the guardian, its features, formed by condensed mist, twisted as it was being crushed, hunted down by something deep within the flesh and blood.

This time, they couldn't stop them.

Even two legendary figures couldn't stop the counterattack from that thing below.

The sky outside the Tower of Learning was filled with a mixture of gold, black, and dark red light, and the spread of flesh and blood was even faster than before.

True despair descended.

The perimeter of the branch.

The wall of flesh and blood rushed straight towards the branch.

The dark red structures spread out from the ground, precisely targeting the resettlement area where several thousand residents had gathered.

It consciously searches for living people, using those surviving, uncontaminated individuals as nourishment.

Upon seeing this, Klaus immediately organized the Night's Watch to block the area around the branch.

The green light on his bone ring shone, and the withered bone armor spread from his arms to his entire body. A bone sword materialized from his palm, and afterimages appeared behind him.

He took a step toward the onrushing flesh and blood, green light overflowing from the bone sword and falling into the dark red.

Any flesh touched by the green light crystallized instantly, and the green crystals spread from the cut, freezing large pieces of flesh into a charred crust.

The several afterimages that followed him increased in speed, blocking the branch from side to side.

But this is ultimately just a drop in the ocean.

Klaus, who usually appears extremely strong, can only struggle like a lone boat in the face of this overwhelming tide of flesh and blood.

The Blue Knights have already charged down.

Pale blue threads seeped from the seams of her armor, wrapping around the outer layer and coalescing into a suit of azure armor. She swung her rapier, and crimson sword energy surged towards the thing intertwined with flesh and roots.

The Blue Knights were clearly far more lethal than Klaus, and their efficiency in intercepting flesh and blood was significantly higher, giving the residents enough time to evacuate underground.

The flesh she cut open curled up, emitting dark red steam. The steam was highly polluting, leaving dark red streaks in the air wherever it passed. With her other hand, she flicked out threads, forming a light blue protective net behind her, keeping the scattered pieces of flesh out.

Reck, dragging his half-crippled body, walked out of the branch office with Jürgen.

His swarm of insects had not yet recovered, and only scattered insect marks remained under his skin. He had very limited strength to mobilize, so instead of taking direct action, he joined in the evacuation of the residents.

The only thing he can do right now is to send the residents deep underground.

If even the depths of the earth can't stop flesh and blood, then they have no other options.

The organized Night's Watchmen raised their silver-plated pistols, and gunfire rang out continuously, with large amounts of mithril being thrown out.

Flames, gunshots, and green and blue lights mingled together, barely buying the residents a little time.

At this moment, Lu Yuan finally connected the four fragments underground.

His consciousness was connected to the four fragments, and the fragments hidden deep within the bronze pillar began to surge toward him as he connected with them.

Lu Yuan could also sense the location of the fifth fragment, but it was very faint.

He was ready to take a gamble.

The current situation no longer allows him to delay any longer.

He planned to gather the four fragments together first, and then forcibly summon the fifth one.