Ancient Battlefield

"How is that possible?"

Long Feijun cried out.

The hit rate of high-altitude bombardment had always been one of the hardest problems to solve in warfare.

No matter how violent a volcanic eruption was, the crater itself was fairly limited in size.

Viewed downward from a synchronous orbit beyond the atmosphere, even the largest crater was smaller than the tip of a needle.

The odds of pushing a meteorite down from synchronous orbit and having it strike an erupting crater dead center were scarcely higher than firing a cotton thread from a hundred meters away and threading the eye of an embroidery needle.

And unless it was a 100 percent precise hit, there should not have been only one Heavenly Pit on the ground. There should have been two overlapping chain craters, shaped like a gourd.

"It's possible. That might not be a volcanic crater. Perhaps it was some kind of... giant cannon launched from the ground toward targets beyond the atmosphere, specifically to attack synchronous orbit targets, like Earth's Missile Silos," Meng Chao muttered.

He closed his eyes.

An image surfaced in his mind.

Long ago—so long ago that carbon-based intelligent life on Earth had not yet sprouted—a world-shaking war had once erupted in the Otherworld.

Blazing flames on the ground, like volcanic eruptions but a hundred times fiercer, gathered into enormous crimson pillars of light that pierced the heavens and stabbed toward the stars.

Yet beneath the stars, countless meteorites were propelled by mysterious forces from synchronous orbit, falling like super-giant hailstones and destroying the "giant cannons" emitting those pillars of light one after another.

Shockwaves tore space apart, searing heat melted the earth, and the entire Otherworld became a literal Fire Hell.

Yet within that Fire Hell, countless beings even more formidable than the Gods and Devils