The furious charge of the royal guards mercilessly crushed the battered butchers in their path.0

The clerics' Holy Barriers, initially a strong defensive measure, now steamrolled all enemies underfoot with the momentum of the entire formation behind them. What few high-ranking demons remained, like the butchers, were utterly destroyed.0

The royal guards charged forward without hesitation, advancing along the path cleared by the Celionor Meteor earlier. Nothing was able to stand against the coordinated assault of the entire formation.0

Their relentless advance soon brought them to the scorched grounds surrounding the Hellgate. Around the Hellgate lay a domain corrupted by its unique field—a hellish wasteland ablaze with roaring flames, where molten lava surged faintly beneath the scorched earth.0

In this fiery region teeming with intense activity, the Hellgate's guardians emerged. Rather than launch attacks, these hellfire elementals focused on protecting the gate.0

The humanoid elementals were composed of both fire and rock and were even capable of flight. They possessed far more explosive energy than regular fire elementals while retaining the durability and resilience of earth elementals.0

As soon as the royal guards stepped into the scorched zone, the wandering hellfire elementals swiftly converged on them.0

The colossal hellfire elementals raised their fiery, rock-infused arms toward the guards and launched parts of their burning, rocky limbs as projectiles.0

"Expand the shield!" the lieutenant ordered immediately....0