Just as the annihilation domain beneath the wall was about to reach its maximum range, an anomaly occurred!
A purple-black energy beam suddenly shot from the distance, accurately striking the center of the domain. Two diametrically opposed forces collided violently, tearing cobweb-like cracks into the air itself!
“So... you finally decided to show yourself?”
Starlight squinted in the direction of the beam’s source. There, a shadow twice the size of a normal Stone Troll was slowly rising, the blood-red patterns on its body flickering with an eerie light—the Stone Troll King had finally entered the fray personally.
The Stone Troll King’s massive form took a giant stride forward, and the gemstone on its forehead suddenly erupted with a blinding radiance.
The annihilation domain Starlight had created was immediately enveloped by a ring of black-red power, rapidly shrinking in size.
In just a few seconds, the domain that had spanned over a hundred meters was suppressed to a mere few meters. Finally, it vanished into nothingness under a flash of red light, leaving only a massive crystal cluster standing at its center.
After resolving the remaining Shadow of Annihilation, the Stone Troll King looked up at Starlight on the wall and suddenly opened its cavernous mouth.
“ROAR—”
With a deafening roar, a torrent of energy mixed with red crystals erupted from the Stone Troll King, surging straight toward the wall.
“Starlight, watch out!”
Moen quickly threw a handful of seeds, weaving a massive shield of vines in the air.
But as before, the moment these vines touched the energy torrent, they began to crystallize at a rate visible to the naked eye.
“Break for me!”
At that moment, Po Kong’s figure suddenly blocked the path in front of everyone. The Sacred Wood Phantom in his hand glowed with brilliant gold, and a blade light as dazzling as the sun collided directly with the crystallized web in the air.
Boom—!
The two forces exploded in mid-air, and the massive shockwave sent all the dwarven warriors within dozens of meters flying.
Po Kong’s feet plowed two deep furrows into the wall as he finally neutralized the force pressing against his blade.
Xia Duo seized the gap created by the energy explosion and leapt into the air, instantly firing three arrows toward the Stone Troll King.
Although she was out of Sacred Wood Arrows, the ones she used now were special magic-breaking arrows taken from the dwarves' military stores. The magic-breaking runes carved into the arrowheads lit up one by one in the air, causing the shafts to accelerate in a spiral.
Unexpectedly, the Stone Troll King simply shook its arms, and a thick crystal layer suddenly grew over its skin. The arrows, though imbued with piercing power, only sank a few inches into the crystals before stopping.
After blocking Xia Duo’s snipe, the Stone Troll King’s purple-black pupils swept across the wall like searchlights, finally locking onto Starlight’s figure.
Even from a hundred meters away, Starlight could clearly feel the strange obsession contained in that gaze.
“Is it coming for me again? Is it because of the magic just now, or...?” Starlight frowned slightly.
Others might not know, but he was well aware that whether it was their previous encounter or now, the Stone Troll King’s true target was him alone.
Before anyone on the wall could figure out the reason, the Stone Troll King’s mountain-like body slowly rose into the air.
As a king who had stepped into the Saint Rank, flight was merely a basic skill.
“Watch out! It’s getting serious!”
Before Starlight’s voice could even fade, the Stone Troll King’s massive body transformed into a streak of black-red lightning, pouncing toward the wall with a terrifying speed that defied its size!
“I’ll stop this guy!”
Po Kong’s body erupted with brilliant golden light as he shot into the sky like a cannonball. The Saint weapon in his hand carried a mountain-splitting force as he slashed at the Stone Troll King.
However, Po Kong’s full-strength strike only managed to slightly stall the monster’s momentum! That eerie power carrying crystal clusters pressed down against his body.
“Pfft!” A trace of blood leaked from the corner of Po Kong’s mouth. He retreated dozens of meters under the immense force from the Stone Troll King’s hand, finally shaking off the entanglement of that power.
Xia Duo’s figure flashed out just in time to catch him before he fell off the wall.
In that brief moment of delay, the Stone Troll King had already broken through the defensive line. Its massive body slammed heavily onto the section of the wall where Starlight was! The entire wall shook violently under the impact, sending countless bricks and stones flying in all directions.
In the split second before the Stone Troll King’s giant palm could strike down, Starlight grabbed Moen’s waist, and their figures instantly vanished into a streak of light.
A second later, they appeared on a battlement a hundred meters away. The spot where they had been standing had been crushed into a massive crater ten meters in diameter.
But the Stone Troll King simply twitched its rock-formed nose, and its eyes locked onto their position once again!
“We can’t fight on the wall! We have to lead it to an open area!”
Before Moen could finish her sentence, the Stone Troll King charged again like a cannonball. The arrow towers and battlements along its path were smashed like paper; ordinary warriors couldn’t block it for even a second.
“Crystal Pillar!”
Maela’s roar exploded on the wall. A brilliant crystal pillar, as thick as two men’s embrace, erupted from the ground and slammed hard into the Stone Troll King’s belly, knocking its massive body off course.
“Get it to the square behind the wall! That area has already been evacuated!”
Hearing Maela’s words, Starlight and Moen immediately understood. They simultaneously cast wind magic toward the Stone Troll King, who had yet to recover its balance.
Two green whirlwinds formed out of thin air beside the Stone Troll King, merging into a giant tornado over twenty meters in diameter. It struck the massive creature like the palm of a giant.
The Stone Troll King’s roar was distorted within the tornado. It flailed its giant arms in a vain attempt to grab onto something, but it was swept up by the violent airflow and hurled like a meteor toward the open square behind the wall.
Boom—!
With an earth-shaking crash, the Stone Troll King’s body smashed a crater over ten meters wide into the center of the square.
The dispersing shockwave shattered all the surrounding windows and even caused cracks to appear on many walls. Fortunately, as Maela had said, the area had been completely evacuated, so no casualties were caused.
As the dust settled, the Stone Troll King’s figure swayed as it stood up from the bottom of the pit.
Although the strike hadn't caused any substantial damage, it had instead provoked the creature's violent ferocity, causing it to throw its head back and let out a furious roar.
“Alright, since there’s no one else around, we can fight with everything we’ve got!”
Po Kong’s voice boomed in the air as his tall figure dove from the wall. His giant scythe was wrapped in boiling golden battle qi, slamming toward the Stone Troll King like a falling star.
The giant scythe struck the Stone Troll King’s back with a weight of ten thousand tons, forcefully smashing the behemoth back into the pit.
With his previous experience, Po Kong knew that the energy on the Stone Troll King’s body would travel through wounds to cause internal damage, so he absolutely could not sustain any external injuries.
Thus, he maintained a high-intensity War God Battle Qi to protect his body. Although this was extremely draining, it ensured he maintained his strongest defense at all times.
The Stone Troll King roared and swiped a giant palm at Po Kong, only to be blocked in place by a crystal barrier from Maela, who had just arrived.
As the two types of mutated earth-element energy collided violently, the ground for dozens of meters around instantly transformed into a bizarre landscape of intertwined red and white crystals.
“Awooo—!”
In the clash of similar powers, the Stone Troll King still held the upper hand. Just as it was about to open its mouth to spit a bolt of red-black lightning at Maela, a crimson arrow shot accurately into its mouth, exploding deep in its throat.
Purple-black blood immediately sprayed from its seven orifices. The monster stumbled back a few steps in agony, and even the glow of the patterns on its body dimmed slightly.
“If we take you down, those Stone Trolls outside will surely scatter like birds and beasts, right?” Standing on the wall, Xia Duo looked coldly at the Stone Troll King being besieged by the group and spoke softly.
To be honest, this was the first time the Stone Troll King had sustained meaningful damage. Despite having a rocky body comparable to mystic iron, the fragile internal structure of its throat ultimately could not withstand an internal explosion.
“Don’t give it a chance to breathe!” Starlight and Moen’s figures appeared at the edge of the deep pit, simultaneously unleashing their spells into the crater.
Countless thorny vines grew frantically from the walls of the pit, firmly binding the Stone Troll King’s limbs.
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