356 The War of Half-gods (1/2)
On a dark night in the Sea of Storms, the Hailuga Kingdom's fleet with the blessings of the seas and the Hollyma Kingdom's fleet with the blessings of the Master of the Night declared war on the Sumerian Freedom Union. Together, they raided King's Port, a crucial port in the Sumerian Freedom Union, destroyed the Sumerian Kingdom's main fleet, the Penetration Fleet, took over King's Port, and inundated the Sumerian Freedom Union nonstop with their soldiers, thanks to their advantage on the seas.
The two kingdoms attempted to force the Sumerian Freedom Union to surrender and sign the treaty of common ownership of the magic crystal system and border trades. However, they faced fierce resistance from the Sumerian Freedom Union.
The war had spread to the western Sumerian Freedom Union, and soon the entire Sumerian region. Even the royal knights and the descendants of god from the Hailuga Kingdom traveled to the Sumerian Kingdom to join the war. Moreover, the Pope of Church of the Dark Night and the Dark Night Priests from the Hollyma Kingdom entered Sumerian on large battle airships.
The Pope and the descendant of a god, who both could borrow and bear the power of true gods, posed great threats to the Sumerian Kingdom.
The three half-gods, the Pope of the Church of the Dark Night, and descendant of a god, the alchemy sea monster Hellem, Ruler of Storms, engaged in a fierce battle. Three giant divine shadows and two beings who wielded the power of true gods fought in the skies of the Urabell Province.
Clouds were torn apart then mixed together again. Divine lights and divine incantations shone brighter than the sun. Beams reflected and refracted, lights of all colors shone on the ground as if the air was broken into a million pieces, bending the colored lights.
The giant body of the enormous alchemy monster Hellem floated in the sky like an island. Its long tentacles moved, and glaring rays of light cut through the sky, shooting towards the horizon. Where its gaze fell, everything became covered in vapor.
Aircrafts and battle airships chased and fired at each other in the sky, and then fell, crashing to the ground as fireballs, turning the entire sky burning red.
No one had seen a war of such intensity. Its ferocity had reached every corner of the human world. Giant shadows in the sky could easily destroy entire cities and lands with a single move. No one could imagine what would happen if their powers were turned on those below.
Commoners huddled up in cities and houses, shaking fearfully. Children and women hid in churches and cavities underground, crying from fright. Even powerful saints died and vanished easily in this battle.
”We had seen the dusk of doomsday! The sky wailing, the ground trembling, the air boiling. Flame and smoke prevailed, aircraft and battle airships fell like puny flies. The entire world was a tiny boat trapped in the storm of war. Every life could be taken at any moment by the storm,” Joshua, a scholar who recorded this war, wrote in his diary as such.