The surface of the city wall flipped up like fish scales as the wall extended higher from the ground, revealing a honeycomb-like array of crossbows beneath.
All three thousand six hundred of the fish-scale plates on the wall flipped over at once. Three-inch barbs sprang from the edge of each plate, glinting with a sinister, blue, venomous light in the twilight.
As gears roared from deep underground, the entire section of the wall seemed to grow upward like a living creature. Simultaneously, a large, cleared plot of land inside the city, adjacent to the wall, began to tremble violently before splitting open into a long, narrow maw.
From within the maw, a lotus-shaped base forged from Profound Steel rose from the depths of the Earth Vein. Twelve layers of Profound Steel lotus petals unfurled, and from each petal emerged a honeycomb-like turret made of Hundred-Forged Profound Steel.
KACHA!
