Chapter 4018

Griffon Kingdom, at the same time.

Across the land, people screamed for help as entire villages were trampled by lone Upyrs, while most cities endured the onslaught of squads of ten corrupted Divine Beasts.

Ten corrupted Divine Beasts that crushed buildings like sandcastles, sealed Warp Gates with their Frost Soul, and slaughtered dozens of humans with a single sweep of their massive limbs.

Only alchemical tools were unaffected by the Upyrs’ bloodline ability, since the spells embedded within them had been cast long ago and sealed inside their vessels. Even so, tier-three spells were nearly useless against such titans.

Soldiers and alchemists could slow the Upyrs’ advance and rescue the wounded or those trapped beneath the rubble, but that was the limit of what they could do.

“You’ll regret pissing me off!” Parmegianno Haug noticed the attack on the city of Zantia only when one of his patrons stepped out of the Traveling Tavern and broke the Hushing spell that shielded the establishment from outside noise.

“I’ll call the Council and—drat!” His amulet was dead, just like everyone else’s within Frost Soul’s area of effect. “Dryna, use those pretty wings of yours and fly far enough to alert everyone.