Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

Lothar's roar echoed throughout the city via the command channel. Although he didn't know what it was, he knew he absolutely couldn't let it get close!

The next second, the defensive system of West Zul'Shlag was in full swing!

The sky was completely filled with crossbow bolts, lava bombs, lightning, and artillery fire.

Any player facing this level of concentrated fire will only have one fate—

It evaporated instantly.

But Liu Nian only raised the dragon's head.

"roar--!!!"

The dragon's roar shook the heavens!

Boom boom boom boom—!!!

The moment the first wave of attacks hit his shield, the entire sky was engulfed in the light of the explosion.

The shockwave flattened the trees below, forcing the troll soldiers on the city wall to hold onto the crenellations to maintain their footing.

The space at the center of the explosion even experienced a brief distortion, a phenomenon caused by excessively high energy density.

"Did we take them down?!" a troll soldier shouted excitedly.

But Losa's expression grew increasingly grim.

Because he saw that even after the light from the explosion gradually faded, the golden dragon shadow still stood in mid-air!

The shield shattered.

However, Liu Nian's life bar only decreased by less than 20%.

Lothar's body trembled uncontrollably: "What...what the hell is this monster..."

The other trolls were also dumbfounded, unable to believe that such a thing could happen!

"It's my turn."

Liu Nianlong opened his mouth, and a light shone from deep within his throat.

Elemental Breath activated!

The elemental energy gathered in his mouth and finally turned into a torrent that shot towards the protective array above the city!

Crimson, ice blue, emerald green, golden yellow, deep purple, pure white, and jet black—streams of light of various colors shot out in different patterns, crashing into the pale gold shield and bursting out with a piercing buzz!

On the city wall, the shaman elders responsible for maintaining the great formation had a drastic change in expression.

"Energy shield consumption rate... 3000 million per second?! How is that possible?!"

"He's constantly switching between different elemental damage types! The array's automatic adaptation mechanism can't keep up with the corresponding resistances!"

"Replenish magic stones! Quickly! Replenish all nodes simultaneously!"

Dozens of troll henchmen carried crates of magic stones to the runic nodes throughout the city walls, filling the grooves with shimmering stones. Each magic stone contained approximately one million points of energy, normally enough to power the array for an hour, but now—

Click, click, click...

The magic stone turned to powder the moment it was inserted, and its energy was drained away.

The durability of the shield is decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye.

49 billion... 47 billion... 44 billion...

At this rate, the shield will be blown through in a maximum of fifteen seconds!

"General! This won't do! We're running out of mana too fast!" a shaman elder roared in the channel. "We need to get higher-grade magic stones!"

Lothar gritted his teeth, his eyes fixed on the giant dragon in the sky that was constantly spewing streams of light.

Trying to break through a 50 billion shield in a single encounter?

This thing is absolutely outrageous!

"Send the Crimson Demon Lord!" Lothar finally made his decision. "Move all ten of them! Hold him off! Buy the great formation time to recover!"

"yes!"

The moment the order was given, ten blood-red pillars of light shot into the sky from within the city!

Each beam of light produced a figure—over five meters tall, covered in crimson metallic armor, wielding various heavy weapons, with the eyes of their helmets gleaming with a cold red light.

【Crimson Demon Lord (LV299)】

[Type: Epic War Golem]

[Attributes: 8 million HP, 850 million Attack, 39 Armor, 25 Magic Resistance...]

[Skills: Bloodthirsty Charge, War Stomp, Blood Rage Combo, Puppet Core (Immune to Control), Blood Wave Assault...]

[Description: The highest-tier war units sold in the system shop, each worth 500 million gold coins, are absolutely great value!]

Ten blood-red demon lords leaped up simultaneously—they had no ability to fly, but their terrifying jumping power made them like ten blood-red meteors, crashing into Liu Nian in the air from different angles!

At the same time, the protective array on the city wall lit up with golden light again, and the damaged parts began to slowly repair themselves.

Liu Nian had no choice but to stop breathing. With a flap of his dragon wings, he rapidly rose into the air, dodging the first wave of encirclement.

But the Crimson Demon Lord's pursuit followed closely.

They could even hover briefly in the air, their greatswords, battle axes, and spears tearing through the air, each swing leaving a bloody afterimage, blocking all of Liu Nian's evasive routes.

What's more troublesome is that these puppets coordinate extremely well—three launch a frontal assault, four harass from the sides, two flank from behind for a sneak attack, and one always gathers power from below.

"Level 299? This is a bit troublesome." Liu Nian was taken aback; these trolls actually had units with such a high level!

Seeing the puppet below spewing out a surging pillar of blood-red light toward him, Liu Nian immediately launched a Shadow Strike!

The target is this puppet that's spewing blood from its mouth!

The puppets that surrounded the area in mid-air missed their target!

Liu Nian's enormous figure circled around the incessantly spewing puppet on the ground and scratched it with a claw!

-1461 million!

The opponent's health bar twitched slightly, and it began to adjust its mouth position, intending to spray towards Liu Nian's body.

However, there may be limitations to mastering this skill, as adjusting the angle of orientation is very slow.

Liu Nian saw a red dot appear on the other's body and slapped it with his claws again!

Duang ~

[Heart of Steel activated, HP permanently increased by 2400 million]

Holy crap!!

What the hell?

Liu Nian was startled.

This thing has such high HP? 8 million?

If it weren't for the ongoing war, Liu Nian would have spent a long time grinding!

With just this one stack, the HP reached 147.63 million (referring to the untransformed value).

Ten level 299 epic golems, working together, could indeed pose a threat to him. More importantly, while he was being held back, the city wall's protective array was rapidly recovering.

Once the formation is fully repaired, all the previous losses will have been wasted.

and……

Liu Nian glanced in the other three directions.

Although the elite bee-people possess formidable attributes, they cannot break through the dense firepower on the city walls in a short time. While their health is indeed high, the damage from the city's defensive weapons starts at tens of millions. They can withstand a few hits, but prolonged engagements will inevitably result in casualties.

Luckily they were fast, otherwise it would have been really dangerous!

However, their attack power is not enough to break through the 50 billion shield in a short time.

"You still have to rely on me..."

Liu Nianlong opened his mouth again, but this time he did not spew out a torrent of elements, but a deep and long dragon roar.

[Celestial Manipulation] Activated!

Rumble—!!!

The once clear sky darkened at a visible speed.

Dark clouds gathered from all directions, forming a giant vortex with a diameter of over 100 meters above Liu Nian's head.