The explosion had torn the first defensive line apart.
A wide crater occupied the location of the isolation area. Black-red flames burned across its edges, feeding on broken stone, shattered artifacts, and whatever remained of the rescue team and the captives.
The first wall had collapsed across several sections.
Two silver formation pillars leaned at dangerous angles, their runes flashing unevenly. One artifact cannon had been thrown into a trench, while another lay upside down with half its barrel buried beneath rubble.
Human and demonic corpses covered the ground together.
The four Abyssal Beasts had also suffered.
The bone-maned lion had lost several white bones from its mane, and burned flesh covered one side of its body. The iron-feathered vulture lay against the cavern wall with one wing twisted beneath it. Cracks crossed the armour of the enormous rhinoceros, while the pale spider dragged itself through the smoke with three missing legs.
None of them had died.
