Donning his armor, he pushed open the door, walked onto the fortress wall, and gazed into the distance.

In the pitch-black night, countless torches formed a "fire serpent" stretching for miles, winding its way through the forest.

The commander raised his longsword and addressed the soldiers around him: "This fortress beneath our feet is the last barrier to the heart of the kingdom! Our battle will determine the fate of the kingdom! Now, heed my command..."

Before he could finish speaking, an arrow pierced the throat of a soldier on the watchtower.

The body fell from the tower, causing everyone to scream and then look up at the sky.

Several griffins carrying their knights circled above the fortress, occasionally hurling deadly arrows at the enemies on the walls.

The fortress commander, hiding behind his shield and looking up at the sky in terror, shouted an order for his archers to return fire.

After several rounds of firing, the soldiers on the city wall began to sense that something was wrong with their surroundings.

A minor earthquake caused dust to rise and fall on the city walls, and the armor plates on the soldiers' bodies to clang and rattle.

To everyone's utter astonishment, a colossal monster ten meters tall appeared beside the fortress. It charged towards the fortress, easily covering several kilometers in mere seconds once it began to run.

Its sharp iron claws tore through the outer city walls as easily as paper, and its thick tail swept away the dense array of barricades and obstacles.

Terrified and disoriented by the monster's attack, the commander instinctively shouted to those around him, "Everyone, listen to my command! Guard the inner city gates!"

The monster stopped attacking, suddenly began scanning the city wall with its eyes, and finally locked onto the commander.

When the commander saw those enormous golden beast eyes staring at him, he felt as if his blood was about to freeze.

The next second, the monster grabbed the stone arrow tower on the outer city wall with its claws, and with a sudden burst of force, accompanied by a violent earthquake, the upper part of the arrow tower was forcibly torn off the fortress.

He wrapped his arms around the arrow tower, spun around in place, and hurled it towards the inner city wall like a shot put in a sporting event.

As the half-arched tower grew larger and larger in his line of sight, the fortress commander collapsed to the ground, managing to utter only one word.

"monster".