Within the energy tower beneath the three-layered city energy barrier, the city lord Hank and the elders were all staring intently at the sky where Baroque with eight wings appeared, their eyes brimming with tension.
In such a dire situation against the formidable Insect Race army, stepping out would mean courting death. Their only option was to wait for reinforcements from the other three shelters to arrive, thus enabling them to battle the Insect Race army.
However, whether they could hold until the reinforcements arrived depended on the Insect Race army's methods of breaking through the energy barrier, specifically how many tactical strikes from the legion commander they could withstand.
If the energy barrier were depleted before the reinforcements from the three shelters arrived, they would have no choice but to bite the bullet and fight the Insect Race. Hence, the first strike from the legion commander was extremely crucial.
