Chapter 456 (1/2)

As Y’zaks bellow rang across the battlefield, both sides were shaken by what the demon king had proclaimed. General Grigory held his sword tightly, his eyes were cautious. At the same time, he asked his adjutant, “What’s a phone call?”

Serathon had also tightened his grip on his warglaive, and roared at one of the demonic army officers, “Quick, go check what ‘blast your a**es to kingdom come’ means!”

Upon Helcrown’s battlements, Hao Ren and the rest were still in a daze. Each and everyone of them were stunned into silence. It took a while before Vivian managed to come up with a reaction. Her face was rather incredulous. “So… Big Guy, care to share your combat strategy?”

Well, that was proof that even a person like Y’zaks was not immune to Earth’s influence after staying there for half a year. The demon king had already picked up a boat load of words that only Earthlings would understand. On top of that, due to the difference in worldviews, Y’zaks knew the exact meaning of the words, but did not find them offensive. He took the words literally, word for word as they were, and when he bellowed them out, his looked serious…

The Allied Army had increased the pace of its attack as more and more arcane cannons finished charging; their load was being blasted towards Helcrown in a flurry. But, just as the army thought victory was within grasp and the end of the Demon King’s army was nigh, an unknown screech traveled across the sky!

The western skies suddenly lit up in silver as countless white and madder red missiles rained upon them like a sudden storm. Neither the Allied Army nor Demonic Army could react in any capacity, They were thrown into chaos by the sudden attack of this skyborn “phenomenon” and the rear of both encampments was an inferno.

“Mysterious silver objects…” Only then did Grigory realize what the sentries meant after looking at the attacking metal vessels. He now understood why they had ignored the outposts during their initial flight. They only bared their fangs at the battlefield, and with the reappearance of Helcrown, it was obvious that the two were definitely related!

However, Aerym’s attack came in a blitz and it was about as quick as the magical transmission used by the Allied Army. By the time General Grigory got word of it, he did not have time to even assess the situation, or react. He did the only thing he could, and ordered his men into defensive formations. “Deploy barriers! Spread out!”

The Allied Army quickly formed a defensive formation as each race hurriedly deployed barriers and spread out. While the arcane cannons changed their targets to their new airborne threat. Griffon riders and mages took to the air to combat the weird metal monsters.

It was a battle of epic proportions, which no one had ever seen before.

Plasma blasts scorched the earth in blinding rays, and the floating debris above the Broken Plains were blasted into white hot chucks of molten rock. Those demons, who were too slow to react were seared into ash by the superhot plasma blasts. Serathon immediately deployed an army-wide demonic barrier as he commanded the demonic cannons to counter-fire. His eyes were still locked onto Helcrown. Shortly after, something appeared and it was forever seared into the minds of all who were present.

The dimensional gate next to Helcrown had grown into massive proportions, almost like a black wall descending from the heavens. A dimensional rift was visible as the object broke through the gate. At the same time, a few pyramid-shaped aircrafts had earlier bypassed the aerial defences and everyone’s attention. They were now slowly appearing from the dimensional gate. Behind the ships were countless guiding lights, which made it seem like they were towing something out of the gate.

Under the guidance of the light, the object finally showed itself, blocking out the heavens.

It was like a floating mountain range, a city beyond the clouds, or a moving continent above everyone’s head. The old space hulk bore the scars of past battles and disasters. A few miles at a time, the space hulk appeared from the gate as though it was threatening to crush everyone underfoot. The sudden appearance of such a colossal hulk that was riddled with holes and appendages struck fear into every being on the field.

The 100-km-long ancient space hulk floated with the aid of the anti-gravity generators as it lumbered its way out of the gate. The Aerymian spacecrafts were massive objects in the eyes of those who had seen it earlier. But with the space hulk’s appearance, they were nothing but gnats next to the behemoth.

The space hulk blocked out the heavens, bringing premature night upon the entire Broken Plains. Under the teeming darkness, only the flashes of plasma and explosions of heat-seeking missiles reminded everyone that the battle was still ongoing.

One of the micro-missiles flew towards him, and General Grigory easily destroyed the missile with a slash of his sword. The holy light obliterated the missile before it even got close and the fragments as well as aftershock slammed against the magic barrier. But, behind the first micro-missile was a swarm of its kind, racing towards him.

A paladin of his caliber could have easily taken care of a missile, but the advanced firepower that the Aeryms brought smothered the heavens.