Defending a level six main city would invite an attack from an entire realm's forces—the thought alone is terrifying. How dare he?

The most important thing right now is to get to the northern ice plains as quickly as possible and help that kid defend the city. But they can't bear to give up such a favorable situation, so the city lord of Jinling City didn't hesitate any longer and shouted, "Fire! Fire! Fire!"

The urgent voice, amplified by the sword in his hand, echoed throughout the entire Ghost Moon Empire, jolting the still bewildered soldiers and players awake.

The booming sound of cannons rang out from the spaceship. The thrust generated by the 200 energy crystal cannons pushed the spaceship, which was the size of a basketball court, backward by dozens of meters.

The dark gold-grade energy crystal cannonballs, flying at breakneck speed, landed on the peaks of the Youyue Mountain Range with a buzzing sound as they rubbed against the air.

With a deafening roar, a shell exploded first, causing the entire Youyue Mountain Range to tremble violently. The first peak to be hit was blasted in half, sending rocks flying like a rain of stones. Even players standing far enough away were still killed or injured by falling rocks.

The players nearby now have nowhere to retreat and can only rely on the priests' healing to barely stay alive.

The sound of rocks falling from the giant peak was deafening. From the upper part of the blasted mountain, large and small stones began to fall, and then the entire upper part of the mountain, with the force to crush the earth, collapsed sideways, crashing into a nearby mountain with a deafening roar.

The Dark Gold-grade Energy Crystal Cannonballs were already powerful enough to flatten a small mountain. In addition, the interior of the Youyue Mountains had long been hollowed out by the caves of the jackals. The power of a single shot far exceeded the expectations of the City Lord of Jinling.

A deafening explosion rang out again, followed by a continuous barrage of blasts. The entire Youyue Empire territories began to tremble violently. Even spaceships hovering high in the sky were nearly overturned by the blast waves.

The entire Youyue Mountain Range was shrouded in rocks, dust, and smoke, making it impossible to see what was happening inside. Only the city lord of Jinling City, standing on the spaceship, could see that the mountain peaks began to collapse and then disappeared into the misty rocks below.

The players surrounding the Youyue Mountains had never seen anything like it before. They craned their necks, their faces filled with either fear or excitement, completely unaware that chunks of bloody gnoll flesh and dried human bones, flying out with the rocks, had already covered the ground in front of them.

Two hundred dark gold-grade shells were terrifying enough that not a single jackal managed to escape from the entire Youyue Mountain Range. The city lord of Jinling City stroked his non-existent beard with a smug look on his face and quietly waited for the smoke below to dissipate.

This battle will surely be recorded in history!

With a rumbling sound, the earth, which had gradually stopped shaking, began to tremble violently again.

The city lord of Jinling looked at the Youyue Mountains with suspicion, trying to penetrate the smoke and mist there to see the strange sound coming from the center of the mountains.

A deafening rumble, like 200 dark gold-grade cannonballs exploding simultaneously, was then muffled by something. The sound grew increasingly muffled. The earth began to shake.

Standing atop the spaceship, the city lord of Jinling City saw the mist in the very center of the Youyue Mountains begin to churn violently. At the same time, he smelled a pungent stench and a faint scent of saltpeter.

This is... a fire dragon!

The city lord of Jinling turned deathly pale, raised his command sword, and shouted urgently, "All players, enter the teleportation array immediately! All players, enter the teleportation array immediately! The earth dragon is coming! The earth dragon is coming!"

As the more than four million players were still wondering, they suddenly heard the city lord's shout. Without hesitation, they immediately rushed into the nearest teleportation array. Beams of white light lit up one after another near the Youyue Mountains, and the players and the teleportation array disappeared together from the map of the Youyue Empire.

Seeing that most of the players had left, the city lord of Jinling finally calmed down. He then said, "Spaceship operators, immediately reverse the spaceship 300 meters! All gunners, immediately load the shells! Dark Gold-grade shells! Dark Gold-grade shells!"

The sudden occurrence of the fire dragon in the Youyue Mountains seems to be caused by the bombardment of dark gold-level cannonballs, but upon closer examination, it doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

Even with the immense power of a Dark Gold-grade cannonball, it only exploded on the surface of the Youyue Mountains, its power insufficient to affect the underground. Another anomaly also caught the attention of the Jinling City Lord: the number of gnoll carcasses blasted out was far fewer than the number of gnolls themselves!

There must be a large number of gnolls hiding underground, causing trouble!

The city lord of Jinling City wanted to see what tricks the jackals of Youyue City were up to.

The rumbling sound became much louder, as if a world-destroying energy was finally about to break through the covering above and erupt unrestrained.

The Youyue Mountains began to shake even more violently, stirring up the slowly dissipating mist on the outer edges, causing it to churn once more. The mist at the very center, however, was now boiling like a thick soup, churning even more violently. The smell of saltpeter had long since masked the stench of rotting corpses, and even as the spaceship moved further away, it still caused the City Lord of Jinling to cough incessantly.

A wolf-like figure suddenly darted out from the outer mist, followed by two, three, and in a short time, countless jackal-men emerged from the fog. They had already completely transformed into wolf forms, running wildly in all directions. Like a pool of gray water, they spread outwards from the ruins of the Dark Moon Mountains to the surrounding land.

Even with prior preparations, Jinling City was still stunned by the terrifying number of jackals.

A deafening roar erupted suddenly, causing the city lord of Jinling City to quickly cover his ears. The broken peaks and rocks of the Youyue Mountains were the first to be shot straight into the sky, followed by an enormous, scarlet magma, like a pillar of light, shooting straight into the heavens, illuminating the entire Youyue Empire's landmass in a crimson glow.

The intense heat swept in instantly, propelling the massive spaceship out of control, sending it drifting thousands of meters away. The city lord of Jinling had already been pushed to the ground on the ship's deck, his hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes completely gone. He was bald, cleaner than a monk.

Fortunately, the spaceship's propulsion was powerful enough that it was not overturned under the control of the crew, and the giant cannon on the spaceship, having been reinforced beforehand, also did not tip over.

Without even needing the city lord's order, the spaceship crew had already steered the ship in a rapid retreat. Seriously? Judging by the momentum of that magma pillar, staying two kilometers away would be certain death!

Even as he fell, the city lord of Jinling City never took his eyes off the giant pillar of lava. He saw countless flames flash and disappear within it, knowing that they were jackals from underground who hadn't had time to escape.

For flesh and blood to produce even a spark under extreme heat is already incredibly rare. As for those weaker, unlucky gnolls, they probably wouldn't even have the chance to produce a spark before their bodies vaporize.