Facing the menacing monsters, PD was full of confidence, his technique so practiced it was heart-wrenching.
He immediately began executing his well-practiced "invincible ground defense" opening:
"Big Dog, deploy! Block the main road, kill enemies to gain Cost!"
"Georgios, deploy! Block three and taunt!"
"Junior Mash, deploy! Double heavy-armor blockade, not even a fly will get past!"
In just over ten seconds, an ultimate ground defense line composed of a max-level Vanguard and two max-level Defenders had perfectly formed at the bottleneck leading to the base's blue gate.
"Come on! No matter what monsters you send, as long as you walk over, you'll be stuck by my Defenders!" PD laughed arrogantly.
The first to rush over were those crazed French soldiers.
As expected, they slammed into Georgios's great shield and were easily skewered by Big Dog's lance, turning into a point of Cost.
"See that, brothers? This is operations! This is tactics!" PD said triumphantly.
However, the next second.
That huge wyvern, accompanied by a piercing sonic boom, rushed to the front of the defense line!
"Georgios! Activate taunt! Stop it for me!" PD roared.
But this wyvern didn't stop obediently to engage in melee combat like the ground monsters.
It suddenly flapped its wide, fleshy wings!
"Whoosh—!"
In PD's horrified, stunned gaze.
The wyvern rose from the ground, traced a graceful arc in mid-air, and actually flew right over the heads of the battle-ready Mash and Georgios on the ground!
"What?! What's going on?!"
PD's eyes nearly popped out of his head.
He watched helplessly as the giant dragon claws swept over the heads of the two Defender Servants he was most proud of, while Mash and Georgios stood there like two blind people, failing to trigger any [Block] judgment!
The system's cold and cruel red prompt box mercilessly popped up at this moment, occupying the entire screen:
[Alert: Enemy flying unit appeared!]
[Trait: Flying units ignore all terrain obstacles and cannot be blocked by any ground units!]
[Master, please immediately deploy ranged anti-air units (Archer/Sniper) on nearby elevated platforms!]
"Cannot be blocked by melee?! It flew right over my head?!"
"F*ck the dev team!!!"
PD let out an extremely shrill scream.
His mind went blank, and he suddenly recalled that for the sake of a "stable blockade," he had brought nothing but melee heavy hitters and Defenders!
On the elevated platforms, other than Andersen, a healer who could only heal and had zero anti-air output, there wasn't even a single Archer capable of shooting arrows!
The wyvern swaggered past the defense line, hovered in mid-air, and with a breath of scorching dragon fire, instantly turned the poor Andersen in the back row to ashes, then extremely arrogantly flew into the unguarded base blue gate.
Hum—!
The screen instantly lost its color.
[Mission Failed]
Not only PD's livestream, but all the major livestreams and player forums across the Youxing Network fell into dead silence at this moment.
All the otherworldly players who had just built up the confidence that "as long as Defenders block the door, you are invincible" had their faces thoroughly slapped by this "wyvern" that descended from the sky.
"It flew over my head... It completely ignored my Servants and flew right over my Defenders!!!"
"Melee can't block flying monsters? What kind of devilish design is this?!"
"Ahhhhh! I brought six max-level melee war gods! Six! And I got cheesed by a lizard flying in the sky?!"
The internet was instantly filled with wailing; countless players were wiped out by the wyvern because they didn't bring Archers, their deaths extremely tragic.
Only at this moment did they truly understand how high the ceiling of tactical depth was for this tower defense game called "FGO".