The partners' brief moment of laughter may have broken the solemn mood before their departure, but the brutality of battle remained undiminished.
The moment they left the protection of the main army's formation, a tide of steel and rotten flesh instantly engulfed them.
The cold joints of the Magical Guide Structures screeched harshly as Energy Beams tore through the air, sweeping toward them with an aura of Destruction.
Undead shrieked, lunging from the shadows of the ruins and from beneath the wreckage of fallen Mechanical Bodies, their rotting claws grasping for the flesh of the living.
"Left flank!"
Reggie's roar was like a war drum as his body became a mobile fortress.
The academy tutor had switched weapons at some point. He swept his giant shield, smashing a row of lunging undead into pulp, and brought his heavy Warhammer down with the force of a thunderclap, crushing a large Mechanical Body.
"Watch out above!"
Jia Xiu's voice was as cold as a blade.
