The permafrost of Capitanograd had long since lost its original grey-white appearance. Days of relentless bombardment, the trampling of monsters, and the ravages of elemental energy had turned it into a bottomless quagmire mixed with purplish-black tainted blood and scorched earth. Keqing stepped fiercely into this sickening mud, her boots sinking in up to her ankles. The air was thick with the smell of gunpowder, blood, rot, and the pungent, stinging scent of mixed metal and burning—the lingering residue of death and destruction after days of a grinding war of attrition.
"Left flank, reinforce!" Keqing's hoarse roar cut through the air like thunder, ruthlessly cleaving the shrieks of the monsters that rose and fell in waves. Not far away, several Millelith soldiers were staggering forward, dragging massive profound-rock heavy shields. On the surfaces covered in spiderweb cracks, the steadily flowing Geo Element was now flickering uncertainly, like a candle in the wind—the Adeptal Energy shields outputted by the Serenitea Pot's Bedrock Key had reached the critical limit of exhaustion in this prolonged war of attrition.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Chapter 200