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

Liu Nian could not hear Manco's prayers.

Because the Divine Dragon Transformation was still cooling down, he didn't plan to charge in at the start of the battle this time.

He was watching the bees carry the "new toy" out of the giant's body.

Those were the siege weapons that Mia had gathered after receiving his orders. Most of them were dismantled from the old fortresses of the Abe Bees, while others were from exiled cities and seized from the Abyss Dwarves.

Liu Nian only brought 2000 bee people this time, half of whom were craftsmen and auxiliary soldiers.

At this moment, they are methodically constructing siege artillery positions.

"Siege weapons in position!"

"Resonance Tower Deploys!"

"Anchor piles ready!"

Commands were transmitted through the Beeman command channel.

Arachne was currently hovering in front of the Colossus in a half-human, half-spider form.

Eight arcane orbs of different colors swirled and expanded around her.

Eight elements and eight rules slowly rotated around her, eventually forming a three-dimensional magic array in mid-air called the "Eight-Phase Annihilation Array".

"Master," Arachne's voice came through telepathy, "let me begin the first wave of attacks."

Liu Nian said, "Okay."

"Let's begin."

Manco's fingers almost crushed the stone edge.

On the city wall, the troll soldiers, roused by him, gripped their weapons tightly, breathing heavily.

But their hands, gripping their weapons, were trembling—everyone could see the dense array of golden figures in the distance, the massive siege engines they were launching, and the eight strange orbs of light hovering in mid-air.

All the trolls were speculating about what kind of attack that thing would unleash.

"She moved!" a troll suddenly screamed.

Arachne hovered in mid-air, its eight limbs fully extended, each tip gleaming with a dazzling silver light.

There was no chanting, no incantation.

Just a simple sentence:

"The first strike."

A beam of light seemed to traverse space, striking the golden, translucent shield that enveloped the city at an incredible speed—and then, a hole ten meters in diameter appeared directly in the shield, disappearing completely as if erased by an eraser.

Manco stared at the slowly healing protective barrier and demanded, "How much?"

"Three hundred million...three hundred million has been lost..."

Manco's face was completely drained of color.

"Fire! Fire!!" he roared, his voice almost cracking. "Fire the sniper rifles! Shoot her down!"

The trolls on the city wall began to run, and a black arrow, over 3 meters long, was loaded into a heavy crossbow. With a deafening hum, the black arrow flew over the city wall in the blink of an eye—

The trolls were all watching the attack, but Manco roared, "Only one? Fire! Keep firing! At least ten!"

"My lord... we don't have that many..."

"If you don't have them, go buy some! Also, replace all the nodes in the defensive magic circle with high-grade magic stones!"

Arachne caught a glimpse of the giant arrow hurtling through the air, raised only one forelimb, and casually drew a silver circle in the air.

Silver ripples spread out.

The next second, the crossbow bolt that was supposed to pierce her chest strangely changed course the moment it touched the ripple area—as if deliberately avoiding her, it grazed past her several meters away.

It was as if he had deliberately avoided Arachne.

Immediately afterwards, the arrows that followed met the same fate, all futilely deflecting before the silver ripples.

Liu Nian watched with great interest; this must be some kind of deflection force field.

Meanwhile, the ground offensive has been fully launched.

Two thousand bee-men were divided into four groups, pushing various siege weapons forward.

The poison mist projectile made a crisp loading sound, the abyss catapult unfolded its support, the winch rattled, and the ultra-long-range rapid-fire cannon was mounted on the makeshift earthen wall, already charging...

These are just long-range suppression and harassment units; their power is not very great.

For example, the poison fog projectile will explode and form a fog circle, causing continuous damage to enemies that enter the poison circle. However, this thing is not mainly used to cause damage, but to form a poisonous miasma to interfere with vision.

The ordinary stone projectiles launched by the Abyss Catapult do not cause much damage, but the advantage is that they do not trigger the defensive effects of the protective array. Yes, they can directly bombard the city walls and targets on them.

As for the ultra-long-range rapid-fire cannon, it is a jamming cannon, mainly used to shoot down the energy projectiles launched by the enemy in advance.

The true weapon of destruction for breaching the city is currently being pushed forward with all its might by the Bee-Man Guardian—

Three [Forbidden Spellcasters].

These were found in Anaxim's warehouse. Many were found at the time, but only these three could be used after minor repairs; the others basically needed major overhauls.

This is a heavy magical turret forged from obsidian and mithril. Its barrel resembles a dragon raising its neck, and its interior is engraved with layers of magical circuits that can transform the energy of the infused magic stones into destructive forbidden magic.

The three forbidden spell casters launched different attacks; the red-muzzle cannon was the [Super Giant War Fireball], each fireball powerful enough to flatten half a block.

The cannon barrel engraved with the letter K is a batch of models that can unleash the [Meteor Shower] under the supervision of the guardian lich of the floating city, Kel'Garderos. K is his initial abbreviation.

As for the largest central turret, it was shrouded in a strange, dark purple halo. That was the [Abyss Roarer], capable of unleashing a demonic dragon from the abyss to attack.

In addition, there are a large number of siege cannons, self-propelled turrets, shield vehicles, and so on.

"Aim at those things—!!" Manco roared hoarsely. "Don't let them get within range! Destroy them!"

The city wall defenders were suddenly awakened.

The ballistae were turned around, the catapults were reloaded, and the defensive cannons roared in unison!

Amidst a deafening roar, heavy crossbow bolts and cannonballs tore through the sky, then rained down on the path of the bee-men.

boom!

As the barrage of attacks rained down, the bee-man team began to suffer casualties.

Unfortunately, the largest, advancing forbidden spell caster was pierced by crossbow bolts in the first wave of attacks, its magic transmission core cracking open. The entire turret emitted a teeth-grinding cracking sound before exploding with a deafening roar.

The out-of-control magical energy transformed into a sweeping storm, blowing away more than a dozen bee-men along with the wreckage of their equipment.

"Chanter Number Three has been destroyed!"

"Squad 13 has been bombarded by catapults! More than half of its personnel have been killed or wounded!"

"The Resonance Tower Guardians are under heavy fire from a chain lightning attack!"

"Sisters, keep moving forward! We're not within attack range yet!"

"Keep going! Forward! Forward!"

"Keep up with the shield truck! Hurry, hurry!"

As they advanced, the Bee-Man troops began to suffer casualties, dying in explosions, but the Bee-Man soldiers behind them pressed forward without hesitation.

Apart from the elite beemen, the other beemen were basically killed instantly after being hit.

They gritted their teeth, pushed the heavy equipment, and struggled forward through a hail of arrows and cannonballs.