All the bullets vanished silently as if they were ice shards thrown into a furnace, without even a hint of smoke.
"Ineffective! All attacks are ineffective!"
The pilots' terrified screams exploded in the public channel, distorted by panic.
They knew nothing about the Twilight of the Gods, but they were well aware of the destructive power their vehicles held.
"Fierce Dragon Squad, listen up!"
All sounds in the headset were overshadowed by a higher-ranking voice:
"For the glory of the Western Continent, execute the 'Ram' operation!"
A few seconds of silence filled the radio channel.
Until the captain of the Fierce Dragon Squad responded first:
"Yes, Sir!"
"For the glory of the Western Continentā"
Amidst the roars, the engine of a fighter jet erupted with a roar beyond its limits, the concealing runes on the surface of the aircraft abruptly turning blood-red, as if the entire fighter jet was ablaze!
It suddenly appeared in the night sky, its invisibility failing.
Immediately after, the fighter jet abandoned long-range attacks, aimed its nose at the Bright Moon, accelerated to its limit, and ferociously collided!
Boomā
In the deafening explosion, the fighter jet finally exploded into a huge fireball.
These fighter jets themselves were extraordinary bombs!
Though not as powerful as the Twilight of the Gods, they were still extremely impressive.
Following the self-destruction of this fighter jet, the remaining jets also launched suicide attacksā
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
A series of explosions far more intense than shelling exploded around the Bright Moon.
Destructive energy fireballs of crimson, pale, and eerie blue mixed together soared into the sky, instantly expanding, illuminating thousands of meters of sea like Purgatory!
Heaven and Earth Qi once again entered a chaotic state.
Until the dust settled.
The Bright Moon remained!
It was as bright as ever, silver light flowing, not flickering a bit.
The frenzied explosion fireballs were like waves crashing onto rocks, futilely splashing some inconsequential foam, then fading away. Even the flowing brilliance on its surface remained undisturbed, as if the hundreds of suicide explosions were merely slight ripples carried by the sea breeze.
A moment later, the Bright Moon was just a few kilometers from the coastline.
From the size of a disc initially, it grew as large as a mountain.
The visual 'slowness' and the rapid physical closing of the distance created an asphyxiating sense of contradictory oppression.
Panic spread like a plague through the two hundred thousand Alliance Army!
"Those who surrender will not be killed."
Li Fei's voice swept across the sea, clearly transmitting through the entire defense line.
The voice wasn't loud, yet it carried an indescribable penetrating power and undeniable authority. It was in no language of the Western Continent, yet its inherent will could be directly understood, deeply imprinting in everyone's consciousness!
"Fire! All coastal defense cannons! All ship cannons! Aim everything! Open fire!!"
Cato Leonard's eyes were bloodshot, like a beast cornered, using all his strength to roar the final command.
Other Dukes also issued the same shelling orders.
This was the final resistance.
Humā!
On the coastline, hundreds of large-caliber coastal defense cannons emitted a dull energy charge sound, the barrels lifted by mechanical drive opened their menacing mouths, and the cold runes lit up one after another inside the deep barrel.
Steel battleships anchored offshore also rotated their turrets, the thick barrels aimed at the same target.
The entire coastline instantaneously became an iron giant bristling with spikes.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The deafening sound of shelling erupted, even more frenzied and intense than the fighter jets' suicidal crashes.
Hundreds of cannons and ship guns roared simultaneously, making the ground tremble!
The blinding muzzle flames instantly merged into one, turning half the night sky into daylight!
Each bomb dragged a long trail of death, with the shriek of air being torn apart and the kinetic energy capable of destroying everything, viciously smashing into the seemingly touchable Bright Moon!
Hundreds of bombs consecutively hit the 'Bright Moon'.
This time, there was no earth-shattering explosion, no fragmentation filled with flames.
All bombs, regardless of their material, charges, enchanted or not, in that exact moment, were crushed by an invisible, intangible, yet overwhelmingly mighty forceā
Annihilated!
The sturdy alloy shell twisted and deformed like rotten wood, instantly disintegrating into the most primitive metal particles; the high explosives and extraordinary materials inside didn't even have a chance to explode, they were directly annihilated by that force, turning into a wisp of smoke and dissipating.
Hundreds of bombs turned into dust as if they were but dreams, silently and without a trace, scattering with the wind.
"..."
Silence.
Absolute silence.
Cato Leonard opened his mouth and suddenly spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.
"Fireāā!!"
Along the defense line, many commanders spontaneously gave the order to continue the attack.
Those chosen for this alliance army were the most resolute and loyal warriors from each country.
The battle would not stop until the higher-ups issued a surrender order.
Thus, the second round of shelling began.
Above Bright Moon, Li Fei sighed.
The 'Bright Moon' beneath his feet suddenly accelerated, tearing through the sky with a flowing light, crashing violently onto the long coastline filled with countless fortifications!
The first thing to erupt was the light.
A pure white brilliance, billions of times more scorching than the noonday sun, swept across everything like the first light of creationāā
The steel battleships on the sea, the harbor, the beach, the reefs, the concrete fortifications, the steel turrets, the machine gun positions, and the soldiers behind cover...
In this extreme light, everything lost its form, leaving only pure black and white silhouettes.
Following the light was the entity of destruction.
A pure white sphere of light, over a kilometer in diameter, composed entirely of frenzied energy, expanded along the surface of the sea with a roar!
Where the light sphere reached, the seawater decomposed, and battleships melted and vaporized like wax statues under the blazing sun, without even a drop of molten iron falling!
In the core of the explosion, tens of thousands of soldiers and their weapons and equipment left not even a trace of ash, completely erased from this world!
At the moment the light sphere expanded to its limit, a devastating shock wave finally eruptedāā
A spherical wall of air, condensed to the utmost and carrying a flow of pure white energy, roared outward in all directions at a speed surpassing sound!
The beach was scraped away by hundreds of meters, the reinforced concrete permanent fortifications crumbled and shattered like toy blocks.
The massive coastal defense gun barrels twisted and snapped like noodles!
Countless soldiers, weapons, vehicles... in the face of this world-destroying power, were like leaves in a storm, easily lifted, torn apart, and transformed into a sky full of blood mist and metal fragments!
The ground shook violently with a mournful wail, and deep, endless chasms rapidly spread.
The air was filled with the pungent smell of explosions, the scorched smell of molten metal, and the thick, tenacious scent of blood.
Smoke and dust mixed with vapors and ash, rising to form a colossal gray-black mushroom cloud, obscuring the bright moon and stars in the sky, casting an apocalyptic shadow!
When the world-destroying white light finally began to retract, the deafening roar was replaced in the survivors' ears by a persistent, sharp ringing, and the hellish scene was truly revealedāā
The coastline was gone.
The steel defense line, stretching for over a dozen kilometers, along with the hills and beaches supporting it, was forcibly flattened and shattered!
A terrifying giant crater, several kilometers in diameter, its edges flowing with dark red lava, was imprinted deeply along the coastline like a gruesome wound on the earth.
All around the giant crater was devastation as far as the eye could see.
Everything above ground level was completely leveled, twisted, and deformed steel wreckage, trees charred black as charcoal, ground baked into a glassy state by high temperatures...
Of the two hundred thousand troops of the Western Continent Alliance, more than sixty thousand died directly in the explosion!
Battleships, ports, fortifications, and various weapons were almost all destroyed.
After several minutes of silence, the survivors gradually reacted.
Crying, screaming, prayers of despair, shoving and trampling, the sound of guns falling to the ground... rose and fell.
These elite warriors from the Seven Western Countries utterly collapsed!
They had the courage to fight the fiercest beasts but no courage to fire at a true god.
Countless soldiers threw down their weapons and fled madly toward the rear.
There were also soldiers who chose to kneel before the distant figure, their bodies trembling with fear, emitting meaningless whimpers from their throats.
They surrendered.
A gap was finally torn open in the top of the massive mushroom cloud formed by smoke and dust, by the fierce winds high above.
The bright moonlight pierced through the thinning haze, spilling onto this Asura battlefield.
Clad in a golden robe, Li Fei came stepping through the moonlight, setting foot on Western Continent soil for the first time.
West Continent Calendar Year 926, October 10th.
This day became a history forever remembered by the West Continentāā
The Divine descended upon the world and executed a judgment.
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