A resounding boom erupted, and a missile exploded like a giant firework, illuminating the entire Sea God's Island as if night had transitioned into day.
"Boom, boom, boom!" One explosion rang out after another, creating a spectacular fireworks display on a massive scale.
Soul Missiles!
Soul missiles had already been widely renowned as the most fearsome weapons since 10,000 years ago, and soul missiles at or above the seventh grade were considered to be weapons that could turn the tides of major wars.
At this moment, all of the missiles exploding in the sky were at least of the seventh grade. The same as the ones used in the Heaven Dou City attack a few days ago.
Titled Douluos of the academy were able to hold their own against these missiles, but the inner court disciples, the weaker ones that had stayed as the rest of the capable ones were at Heaven Dou City to help with the aftermaths, were quickly forced back onto the ground by the terrifying explosions of energy.
Fearsome explosions erupted one after another, but the figures that had risen up into the air managed to keep all of the soul missiles at bay, detonating them before they could land on the inner city.
More and more figures began to rise up into the air from both the inner city and the outer city. There were countless powerful beings in Shrek City, both from Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect but unfortunately most of them were in the Heaven Dou City. The same with the people of the Seagod Pavilion who were overlooking the other cities. Who knew the actual threat was at their home turf.
The Soul Missiles blasted like meteor showers, increasing in numbers and slowly pushing into the defences. There seems to be an innumerable number of missiles covering the skies and the Teachers so few in number.
The other powerful beings in the Shrek City, people from noble or powerful families, bodyguards of merchants or any and all the people who could aid in the defence, everyone joined forces against the attack. They began detonating soul missiles one by one, and a sea of fireworks encompassed the entire sky above Shrek City.
A series of figures rushed toward the Sea God's Island from the distance. They were none other than the other members of Shrek's Seven Monsters.
Right at this moment, a series of bright halos lit up, forming protective barriers. In the beginning, these barriers only appeared over the inner city, but they quickly began to appear in the outer city as well. The barriers rippled violently in the face of the powerful shockwaves, but they managed to keep the threat at bay. Ninth-grade soul missiles were weapons that were too powerful for even a major city's protective barriers to keep at bay. Soul missiles at or above the ninth grade were weapons that even Hyper Douluos wouldn't dare to face head-on and fortunately for them, not a single ninth grade missile was in the quarry that was thrown towards them. At least not yet.
The Seagod Pavilion.
The Sea God's Pavilion Master, Atlas Douluo Yun Ming stood at the top of the pavilion. Holy Spirit Douluo Yali stood beside him, and on his other side was Light Dark Douluo Long Yeyue.
All three of them were casting their eyes into the sky, and Yun Ming finally understood why he'd been experiencing such a strong feeling of directionless unease. It turned out that the imminent tragedy that he had sensed was going to befall Shrek City rather than the events at the Heaven Dou City. Ya Li gripped tightly onto Yun Ming's hand. She couldn't even remember the last time that she had been this nervous.
This was just the beginning. They knew that. They knew that the Holy Spirit Cult had to have more up their sleeves for them to dare to attack Shrek City and I truly hope that that was the reason why there were standing still and not doing anything.
"Times really have changed!" Light Dark Douluo Long Yeyue chuckled coldly, "It seems that our Shrek City hasn't bared our fangs to the world for too long; even trash like these Evil Soul Masters dare to attack us now. Yun Ming, has our Shrek City's influence in the federation grown so weak already? How did all of these soul missiles get here? They were launched from inside the city! When did our Shrek City's defenses become so feeble?"
In the face of Long Yeyue's accusations, Yun Ming had no response.
Indeed, Shrek City had experienced peace for too long. Everyone had become convinced that the Infallible Shrek was truly infallible; who could've imagined that someone would dare to attack Shrek City?
Yun Ming was well aware of what it had meant for the city to be attacked by so many soul missiles from such close range, and his hands balled up into tight fists.
However, he knew that he had to remain calm and control the entire situation. The enemy's attacks definitely wouldn't be limited to just this and he was waiting for the enemy to reveal their cards so as to not fall into some kind of trap and further worsen the situation than it already was. The Evil Soul Masters knew the Seagod Pavilion's strength and would definitely not fight fairly.
This was most definitely a war that had been planned well in advance. That's right, it was a war, not just a terrorist attack. This was a disaster that had struck without any premonition.
Every city had all types of advanced sensory devices that could detect explosives, and if things like soul missiles were to be discovered, they had to be immediately taken care of by the city's officials.
However, so many high-grade soul missiles had appeared in Shrek City, the so-called infallible Shrek; what did that entail?
It entailed that the enemy had ways to breach Shrek City's defenses, and that Shrek City was no longer infallible.
Yun Ming suddenly understood everything now. The terrorist attack launched against Heaven Dou City had drawn everyone's attention, and both the Tang Sect, as well as Shrek Academy, had deployed many powerful beings to the city. However, the ultimate target of the enemy was never Heaven Dou City.
After all, Heaven Dou City didn't pose much of a threat to the Holy Spirit Cult, but Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect were an entirely different story.
This had been the enemy's ultimate target all along!
"I'll go!" Yali yelled before attempting to rush out, only to be held back by Yun Ming.
This definitely wasn't the extent of the enemy's attacks. Both Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect headquarters were situated in the inner city. The outer city was being severely ravaged by these attacks, but this still wasn't enough to truly harm Shrek City's foundation.
As such, this was definitely not the end. If all of them were to panic and make rash decisions now, they'd only be falling into the enemy's trap and even more severe disasters will follow.
(Duck the people who had made the outer city without permission)
"Comrades of the Tang Sect, please save our injured citizens. I leave the outer city to you." Yun Ming's voice traveled far into the distance.
(Or not)
Light suddenly flashed, and Light Dark Douluo Long Yeyue rose up into the air. Since the Evil Soul Masters were not revealing themselves, she will have the bait to get things started.
...
Tang Wulin and the others had all turned deathly pale as they stood on the Sea God's Island.
They could also hear the explosions taking place in the outer city and see the mushroom clouds rising up into the air in the distance.
Their minds had gone completely blank. This was something completely unimaginable to them. They didn't even know where their enemy was, yet they were already afflicted by such a terrifying disaster.
The energy storm in the air still hadn't dissipated, and those mushroom clouds were undoubtedly taking countless lives.
Right at this moment, a voice that was filled with authority rang out beside their ears. "Come to the Sea God's Pavilion!"
Tang Wulin shuddered and immediately returned to his senses. He waved a hand toward his friends, and all of them quickly rushed toward the Sea God's Pavilion.
The Sea God's Island wasn't very large, so they quickly arrived at the Sea God's Pavilion, where they were met by Atlas Douluo Yun Ming and Holy Spirit Douluo Ya Li who had come down from the highest place on the Seagod Pavilion.
Yun Ming appeared to be very calm, as if nothing were happening at all. Following the arrival of Tang Wulin and the others, he stepped forward, and commanded, "From now on, no matter what happens, stay in the Sea God's Pavilion. Go."
Tang Wulin faltered slightly upon hearing this. "Pavilion Master, please allow us to help the academy in some way. We..."
"Shut up and get inside!" Yun Ming roared. He waved a hand through the air, and a terrifying burst of energy swept up the seven of them before dumping them into the Sea God's Pavilion.
"Remember that all of you represent the future of the academy. If the worst-case scenario happens today, you will be the foundation upon which the academy is rebuilt." Yun Ming's voice reverberated within everyone's ears.
Tang Wulin's expression changed drastically upon hearing this. Was the situation that bad already?
Right at this moment, Tang Wulin suddenly discovered that everything outside had turned green without any premonition. The entire sky had turned green.
Yun Ming saw that as well. So did the rest of the ones that were not in the green. All around them and coming towards the direction of the Shrek Academy was a flood of green crystals flowing like water and in them were people.
"Those are..."
Many recognised the green crystal flood or at least the green crystals. How could they forget the madman who spammed his single skill.
Then, noises stopped. The soul missiles all sealed and transferring somewhere. The energy shield that was erected by the city completely enveloped by the green. The people who were screaming to avoid the crystal flood, now swept in it, their voices disappearing.
"What is this?"
Someone muttered.
"They are being moved."
"Is it a foe?"
"We don't know."
Suddenly, the sky turned purple.
...
A minute ago.
Fan Lin rose into the air after waiting to see what would the Shrek do to protect the city. Not much did they do. He took in the situation and immediately began to plan his actions. Currently, there were around 12 million people in the Shrek City, inner and outer combined, and were currently being protected by the barriers.
It was a miracle that not one had died yet. They might be waiting to suddenly poof away.
'This should work out. Let's add a big distraction, locate the soul missile launchers and stop the barrage first.'
'It would still take Eighty Nine minutes to teleport all that I want.'
'I don't think I have that much time."
[Spirit ring fusion]
Fan Lin's first three spirit rings fused to create a purplish green spirit ring.
[Martial soul fusion]
Then martial soul fused creating a dark green ring with purplish thread pattern.
These were his two fusion skills and he can take a Titled Douluo with them.
'The first fusion between my first three rings enhances the their abilities by 1.5 times. Fusing it with my martial soul provides what I called the ultimate ring and it increases all the abilities by 3 times more. And,'
"Boundless vitality."
The red spirit ring lit up. This skill directly increases all the factors of the plant related soul skills by 425%.
'Good. Currently my soul power absorption rate is 150x per minute. This should definitely decrease the Teleportation time. '
'First things first,'
Fan Lin used Crystallokinesis and enveloped the whole Shrek City, both the inner and outer city. All living beings were firmly swept away in a tide of crystals and were being gathered together. This made teleporting them easier.
'Found them.'
The missile barrage receded within a few seconds as he crystallized all the missile launchers and the missiles and disassembled them.
SILENCE.
The atmosphere suddenly turned pin drop silent as everyone was staring at his direction. Below them, a sea of people people were dragged towards the plaza.