For a moment, on the city wall, there was a deathly silence.

You could hear a pin drop.

Only the sound of gasps, one after another, could be heard.

Everyone's pupils contracted into the most dangerous pinpricks, their faces pale, their lips trembling uncontrollably.

What was that?

That was the end of the world.

That was a black tide surging from the depths of Hell, threatening to completely engulf the human world.

The thundering hooves crushed the earth and stepped on everyone's hearts, heavy and suffocating.

Even Zhou Huai was momentarily lost in thought.

The scene from the Simon dungeon flashed through his mind.

The beast tide there was already terrifying enough.

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

"Fake..."

"It's all fake..."

On the city wall, a young professional finally couldn't bear the world-destroying pressure.

His mind collapsed.

He threw away the longsword in his hand, his eyes unfocused, muttering incoherently.

"So many exotic beasts..."

"We can't hold them... How can we possibly hold them?"

He backed away, shaking his head nervously.

The despair in his eyes completely overwhelmed his reason.

He suddenly turned around, like a wild beast cornered by a hunter, rushing towards the stairs leading down from the city wall in a panic.

However, he hadn't even run two steps.

Boom!

A muffled gunshot overpowered the earth-shattering roars of the beasts.

The fleeing professional's body stiffened abruptly.

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

He crumpled to the ground like a sack with its bones removed, twitched twice, and then fell silent.

That shot seemed to awaken the others on the city wall who had been in a daze.

Everyone stiffly turned their heads, looking in the direction of the gunshot.

They saw Li Gang holding a large Dragon-headed gun that was still emitting smoke with one hand.

His weathered face was now as cold and stern as ice.

"Everyone!"

His voice wasn't loud, but it carried a power that pierced people's hearts, clearly reaching everyone's ears.

"I don't care which Guild you belong to, and I don't care what you used to do!"

"Since you've stepped onto this city wall, you will all obey my command now!"

The muzzle of his gun slowly swept across the crowd, his gaze as sharp as a knife.

"Anyone who dares to desert the battle again..."

"He will be their fate!"

His cold words made everyone's hearts tremble.

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

"I know you are scared, very afraid."

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

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

He suddenly turned around and pointed the large gun towards the city.

"It's our parents! It's our wives and children!"

"It's our home, where we were born and raised, a home we swore to protect with our lives!"

"If even we, the professionals with power, run away, what will happen to them?!"

"Don't worry!"

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

"Our military's sons will be the first to charge forward!"

"If we die, we will die first!"

His words were impactful and resolute.

Like a red-hot branding iron, they seared everyone's hearts.

The blood that had turned cold due to fear seemed to start burning again.

The members of the Eternal Night Guild stepped forward at the opportune moment, raising their weapons.

"Great Master Li Gang, rest assured! Our Eternal Night Guild will never retreat!"

"We swear to defend Donghai City to the death!"

"We swear to defend Donghai City to the death!"

With someone taking the lead, the professionals from other Guilds also seemed to be infected, suppressing their inner fear and roaring along.

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

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

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

Zhou Huai, controlling Moria, his voice remained calm.

"Approximately five more minutes."

Li Gang's brows instantly furrowed into a frown.

Five minutes.

Too long.

At the current speed of the beast tide, five minutes would be enough for them to reduce this city wall to dust.

He dared not gamble.

"No! We must find a way to slow down their attack rhythm! To create time for Great Master Kongming!"

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

"Everyone, do you have any ideas?"

On the city wall, a deathly silence fell once again.

Everyone looked at each other, no one answering.

Ideas?

What a joke.

That was an army of millions of exotic beasts.

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

Who could stop them?

How could they stop them?

By sacrificing their lives?

Just as everyone fell silent and despair began to spread again, a clear and cold voice suddenly rang out.

"Let me do it."

Everyone's gaze, in unison, once again focused on Moria.

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

"You have a way?"

Zhou Huai, controlling Moria, met everyone's gaze, his tone sincere.

"I'm not entirely sure either."

"I can only take a risk and try."

Hearing him say that, the hearts of the crowd, which had sunk to rock bottom, couldn't help but rise with a faint glimmer of hope.

Sun Tian, the Guild Leader of the Tianyu Guild, quickly pressed him.

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

Zhou Huai, controlling Moria, slowly shook his head.

"You don't need to cooperate."

He paused, his gaze sweeping over the crowd, and added.

"You just need to protect yourselves and not fall off the city wall."

Upon hearing this, everyone present °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° was stunned.

What did he mean?

He intended... to stop that black wave of death all by himself?

How could that be possible!

Unless Marshal Zhao Qingcang, the legendary figure hailed as the Guardian God of the Great Xia Country, personally arrived.

Otherwise, who could, by himself, contend with a beast tide of such a scale?

But this time, no one jumped out to refute him.

The faces of those who had questioned him before were still stinging.

Since he dared to say such a thing, perhaps... perhaps he really held some earth-shattering ultimate move.

Let's try anything, even if it's a long shot.

Anyway, they were all going to die regardless.

What if he really could create a miracle?

Li Gang looked deeply at Moria, his tiger-like eyes filled with complex emotions.

In the end, he just heavily patted Moria's shoulder.

"You must be careful!"

Zhou Huai nodded silently.

He turned around, looked up, and let out a soft call to Little Black, who was circling in the sky.

"Little Black."

Roar—!

Little Black let out a low Dragon roar, its massive body swooped down from the sky, landing steadily in front of Moria, its huge Dragon head affectionately rubbing against his cheek.

Moria leaped onto the Dragon's back.

He took one last look at the varied expressions on the faces of those on the city wall.

Then, resolutely and without hesitation, he turned the Dragon's head.

Without the slightest hesitation.

He flew towards the vast, surging beast tide outside the city.

The black Great Dragon carried the silver-haired figure.

That solitary figure, in front of the apocalyptic beast tide, was like a small boat about to be swallowed by a storm.

A single wave could completely engulf him.

Yet, it was this small boat that carried the hopes of all the people of Donghai City.