For a time, atop the city wall.

Utter silence.

You could hear a pin drop.

There was only the sound of gasping breaths rising one after another.

Everyone's pupils shrank to the most dangerous pinpricks, their faces turned pale, and their lips trembled uncontrollably.

What was that?

That was the end of the world.

That was a black tide surging from the depths of Hell, wanting to completely devour the mortal realm.

The surging sound of hooves shattered the earth and stepped onto everyone's heart step by step, heavy and suffocating.

Even Zhou Huai was momentarily dazed.

The scene of the Ximeng City dungeon flashed across his mind.

The beast horde there was already terrifying enough.

But compared to the scene before them, it was merely the difference between a stream and an ocean.

"Fake..."

"It's all fake..."

On the city wall, a young Professional could finally no longer bear this world-destroying sense of oppression.

His mind collapsed.

He threw away the long sword in his hand, his eyes unfocused, and muttered randomly in his mouth.

"So many exotic beasts..."

"We can't hold it... How could this possibly be held?"

As he retreated, he shook his head neurotically.

The despair in his eyes completely overcame his reason.

He suddenly turned around, like a beast driven into a desperate situation by a hunter, and rushed blindly toward the stairs under the city wall.

However, he hadn't even run two steps.

Boom!

A muffled gunshot overpowered the heaven-shaking beast roars.

The running Professional's forward-moving body suddenly stiffened.

A mist of blood burst from the back of his head.

The whole person fell softly to the ground like a sack with its bones removed, twitched twice, and then fell completely silent.

This gunshot seemed to also awaken the others on the city wall who had fallen into a trance.

Everyone stiffly turned their heads and looked in the direction the gunshot came from.

They saw Li Gang holding high with one hand a dragon-headed heavy spear that was still emitting blue smoke.

His weathered face was as cold as ice at this moment.

"Everyone!"

His voice was not loud, but it carried a power that pierced through the heart, clearly reaching everyone's ears.

"I don't care which guild you belong to, nor what you used to do!"

"Since you've stepped onto this city wall, you must all listen to my command now!"

The muzzle of the gun in his hand slowly swept across the crowd, his eyes as sharp as knives.

"Whoever dares to flee before battle again—"

"He will be the end result!"

The cold words made everyone's hearts tremble along with them.

After saying this, Li Gang's tone softened a lot.

"I know you are all scared and terrified."

"Damn it, to be honest, I'm scared too!"

"But don't forget what is behind us!"

He suddenly turned around and pointed that heavy spear into the city.

"It is our parents! It is our wives and children!"

"It is the home where we were born and raised, the home we swore to protect with our lives!"

"If even we Classer who possess power run away, what will happen to them?!"

"Rest assured!"

Li Gang turned around again, facing the darkness approaching outside the city, his chest held straight.

"The sons of our military department will be the first to rush to the very front!"

"If anyone dies, we will die first!"

These words were resounding and powerful.

Like a red-hot branding iron, it fiercely seared into everyone's heart.

That blood, which had grown cold due to fear, seemed to start burning again.

Members of the Evernight Guild stepped forward at the right time, raising their weapons high in their hands.

"Rest assured, Lord Li Gang! Our Evernight Guild will never retreat!"

"We swear to death to defend Donghai City!"

"We swear to death to defend Donghai City!"

With someone taking the lead, Classer from other guilds also seemed to be infected, suppressing the fear in their hearts and roaring along.

Atop the city wall, that morale on the verge of collapse was finally forcibly stabilized.

Li Gang's gaze fell upon the silent silver-haired figure not far away.

"How much longer until the defensive Formation is activated?"

Zhou Huai controlled Moria, his voice still calm.

"Probably about five more minutes."

Li Gang's brows instantly twisted into a Chinese character 'chuan' shape.

Five minutes.

It was too long.

At the beast horde's current speed, five minutes was enough for them to smash this city wall into powder.

He dared not gamble.

"No! We must find a way to slow down the pace of their attack! Create time for Master Kongming!"

Li Gang's gaze swept across the crowd, his voice urgent.

"Everyone, do you have any ideas?"

Atop the city wall, dead silence fell once again.

Everyone looked at each other in dismay, with no one answering.

Ideas?

Are you kidding me?

That was an army of millions of exotic beasts.

Any individual was as insignificant as an ant in front of such a torrent.

Who could stop them?

How to stop them?

Use lives to fill the gap?

Just as everyone fell silent and despair began to spread once again,

a cold, clear voice sounded abruptly.

"Let me do it instead."

Everyone's gazes focused uniformly and once again on Moria.

A trace of surprise flashed in Li Gang's eyes.

"You have a way?"

Zhou Huai controlled Moria, meeting everyone's gazes with a sincere tone.

"I don't have too much certainty either."

"I can only take a risk and try."

Hearing him say this, everyone's hearts that had sunk to the bottom couldn't help but raise a trace of faint hope again.

Sun Tian, the president of the Heaven's Decree Guild, hurriedly asked.

"What do you plan to do? How do you need us to cooperate?"

Zhou Huai controlled Moria and slowly shook his head.

"No need for your cooperation."

He paused, his gaze sweeping across the crowd, and added a sentence.

"You just need to protect yourselves well and make sure you don't fall off the city wall."

As soon as these words came out, everyone present was instantly stunned.

What did that mean?

He planned... with his own strength alone, to stop that black wave of death?

How could this be possible!

Unless it was that legendary Marshal Zhao Qingcang, praised as the guardian deity of the Great Xia Nation who walked the mortal world, arriving in person.

Otherwise, who could contend against a beast horde of such a scale with their own strength alone?

But this time, no one jumped out to refute.

Those questioning faces from before still stung fiercely.

Since he dared to say this, perhaps... perhaps he really held some earth-shattering ultimate trump card in his hands.

Let's treat it as a desperate measure.

Anyway, death was certain either way.

What if he could really create a miracle?

Li Gang gave Moria a deep look, complex emotions swirling within those fierce tiger-like eyes.

In the end, he just heavily patted Moria on the shoulder.

"You must be careful!"

Zhou Huai silently nodded.

He turned around, raised his head, and let out a soft call toward Xiaohei circling in the sky.

"Xiaohei."

Roar——!

Xiaohei let out a low dragon's roar, its massive body diving down from the air and landing steadily in front of Moria, its huge Dragon head affectionately rubbing against his cheek.

Moria leaped onto the Dragon's back.

He turned back for a final glance at the faces with various expressions on the city wall.

Then, he resolutely turned the Dragon's head around.

Without the slightest hesitation.

He flew toward the majestic and surging beast horde outside the city.

The black giant Dragon carried the silver-haired figure.

That lonely back in front of the apocalyptic beast horde was like a lonely flatboat about to be swallowed by the storm.

A single wave could completely submerge it.

Yet it was precisely this flatboat that carried the hopes of everyone in Donghai City.