When darkness and laughter disappeared, real terror exploded.
The guards who arrived subsequently saw a scene akin to what one would witness when the mining area faced natural disaster creatures.
Twenty-four Judgment Knights lay torn apart, while the remaining nearly one thousand guards all collapsed on the ground.
Li Wanye, the Lord of the thirty-ninth Fortress, had suffered only some minor injuries as he was a key figure meant to be protected.
But Li Zheng was less fortunate.
Within the darkness, all Li Zheng felt was a light touch from the opponent, but his ribs broke one after another.
When Qi Xun, Song Que, and other Lords from the fortresses rushed over with a large force from the sixth level, each of them was profoundly shocked by the scene.
Qi Xun asked for details of the incident, and from the still semi-conscious guards, he learned that all of this was the doing of the masked stranger.