Chapter 717 - Book 6, Chapter 109 (1/2)

Book 6, Chapter 109 – Tests

Several days later The sun sat high, baking the yellow sands below The fa heat of the wastelands was in full sway

Less than half a year had passed since the Southern Capital was established The time had been ates of the city Its population now nuned

In the North-West of the city was a canyon thoroughfare where the city and the wastelands met One end of the valley seamlessly went from ancient ruins to new urban development, while the other spilled out into dilapidated emptiness

The wasteland side of the canyon was peppered with several dozen watch stations strung together into a forward outpost Its ainst mutant attacks and natural disasters Outposts like this were located at every entrance and exit, which helped ht Gabriel, Barb and a few others to the barren outskirts The two city planners directed their workers to install a large pylon at the mouth of the canyon while a number of soldiers watched in curiosity They didn't knohat brought Leader Cloudhawk all the way out here during their patrol

“Hey Eminence Cloudhae're all set” [1]

“Tell Gabby to open 'er up and give it a try”

Gabriel reached out to the pylon with his athered around it and belched from the top like soht shot up into the sky, thirty meters or more At its zenith it spread out in all directions to for over the area

The nearby soldiers watched with their ape That was… dray shi+eld has been activated successfully”

“Looks like it'll protect about five thousand square meters, more or less”

“Hey Eminence, you did it! We have our own defense pylon!”

Barb's excitement and adoration were clear on her face Cloudhawk had found a way to make water from air and soil from sand Now he'd built their own defensive tower – another invention that would definitely serve future generations

Cloudhawk didn't seeainst”

Barb turned and delivered the other “Attack the shi+eld!”

Several dozen Awakened [2]started to launch attacks They started weak and gradually increased in strength with each wave With every volley the shi+eld's light dimmed until, after about a hundred blasts, it finally collapsed Like a soap bubble, the shell popped and disappeared

Ooh's and ahh's arose from the soldiers They were i to break through

Barb collected the relevant data and handed it to Cloudhaho looked over the suh”

“Eminence, what's there to be unsatisfied with? Master Deoing to be attacking our city? If you askNot only will it protect us fro for trouble will have a hard tih!”

Cloudhawk didn't share Barb's optin he'd stolen from the divine matrix, based on the pylons they used on their airshi+ps He'd made some adjustments to turn it into a stand-alone defensive structure that could protect a wider area To the greatly weakened Elysian realm this was a wonderful invention

On the surface it seeainst two or three attacks fro to celebrate In a war zone, however, it wouldn't last the opening salvo A concentrated shot froh to match ten Master Demonhunters!

Sure you could say the defense pylon was strong, but it wasn't nearly strong enough to protect huer they faced At least for noould protect theh

There were differences between this sort of pylon and Cloudhawk's Miracle Towers