Chapter 1184 - Advance (1/2)
The bright, beautiful rays of sunlight shone from above, illuminating the vast, pitch-black land. The night sky gave way quickly as the glaring brilliance penetrated the darkness like a ruthless, razor-sharp blade. Facing this ambush, the undead creatures raised their heads in confusion and stared blankly at the dazzling golden light. Perhaps due to them living in darkness for too long, they couldn’t react instantly upon witnessing the blinding radiance… But it didn’t matter too much.
Because it was the end for them.
The golden brilliance metamorphosed into a powerful force, converging into spurts of surging tide that devoured the surface completely. A massive and glaring energy beam dazzled across their eyes. Long-overdue, explosive shockwaves erupted out of the abyssal gullies like an invisible, enormous palm reaching out and digging a tunnel in the sand, while continuous streams of airwaves blasted from within. After a few moments, deafening, resounding, and terrifying rumbles echoed. Gales that broke the sound barrier blustered in all directions, while the solid ground cracked, fissured, and collapsed entirely.
At this moment, the undead creatures who were under attack finally returned to their senses. They bellowed and fought back with lichs brandishing their magic staff and chanting profane runes and words. Shortly after, a dark, gloomy, and sturdy magical barrier appeared out of thin air, bringing along a foul-smelling, pitch-black cloud into the sky to conceal the sun. Death knights rode on warhorses as they galloped ahead. On the vast land, skeleton soldiers wielded their weapons. Their scarlet eyes glinted in flickering madness. They stormed forward, attempting to smash everything in their path into bits.
Until the brilliance descended.
“———!”
The crisscrossed, enormous, magical brilliance swept across the land. Its unparalleled force was indefensible by ordinary creatures. The magical barrier that the lichs went through great pains to cast shattered into powder in less than a second like a fragile, boulder-crushed egg. The pure energy devoured and dismantled everything in its path, scorching the land into charcoal-black with no survivors, and even plants and trees were gone in sight. Be it the living or undead, there were no more traces of them. In this vast land, the only existence was nothingness.
“The second round of the Delusion Rainbow has been fired, Your Majesty Rhode.”
“Give ’em the third!”
Standing in the command room of the magic warship, Rhode stared at the land that was burnt entirely. However, he didn’t seem to have the intention of letting down his guard yet.
“I want to uplift the entire Country of Darkness! This isn’t a metaphor, exaggeration, or delusion! I want everything to disappear from the Country of Darkness! Kill on sight—anything that stops you! Blast off any mountain and flatten all rivers ahead! Raze the Country of Darkness to the ground! When I step into the land of the Country of Darkness, I want to see no obstacles until the end of the horizon! Keep bombarding them! After the third round of blasts, send out the magician knights and carry out a raid. I don’t want to see any enemies alive!”
Along with Rhode’s snarls, the massive magic warship that blended into the starry sky sailed forward. The gigantic steel cannons on both sides of the lower hull rotated constantly, spurting strings of white, hot steam like clouds. At the next moment, magical radiances that were coalesced to the extreme emanated from the opening of the steel cannons. Then, spinning magical rituals took shape in front of the steel cannons that were at least three humans tall. At the next moment, the magical beams fired, streaking across the horizon and aiming for the land in the distance. In thunderous booms, the flat ground bulged instantly like a balloon and the energy contained in the magical beams reached its peak, exploding abruptly. In an instant, terrifying, scarlet fireballs blew up, while pitch-black mushroom clouds rose from the ground, blasting forward along the airwaves. Before the brave undead creatures reacted, they turned into fluttering ashes, spiraling in the air with flying sand and sparkling stars, before landing on the ground. The explosions brought upon a somewhat mechanical and regular rhythm of beauty, like a pipe organ used to perform in sacred palaces. The deep sound of the pipe organ astounded one’s spirit and entirety as it vibrated in wonderful melodies, releasing dazzling flashes, flames, and thunder rolls like a grand symphony of destruction.
“———! Leader, you’re amazing!”
Looking at this scene, Mini Bubble Gum couldn’t help but blow a whistle.
“That’s the way it should be! Air strikes, followed by advancements from armored vehicles on land!”
This time, Rhode didn’t lead the magic fleet to slaughter his way into the Darkness Capital like he mentioned earlier. If it were in the past, perhaps it would still be effective. But it was different now. Chaos consisting of Order had to be cleaned up progressively. It was like how one had to wipe every single tile cleanly and not clean up only the filthiest one. Even though this might take some time, it was definitely better than letting Chaos take advantage of a lapse.