Changing the Balance of Power

Boom!

Without another word, the enormous concave glass mirror was assembled and activated.

Whoosh—

It swiftly gathered sunlight in the atmosphere. A thin, curved shadow blanketed half of Oceania below, then adjusted its angle and focused on a point in the North and South Provinces.

Splat!

A massive white beam passed through the planet's atmosphere and converged on a single point on the ground.

Rumble!

It was a special secret military base deep in the mountains. A huge metal mirror made of special material reflected the white solar rays that had fallen upon Earth back into space.

Whoosh! The beam arrived in an instant.

It struck near the moon, piercing through an immensely vast and terrifying cosmic creature.

"Hisss—" The cosmic creature let out a miserable scream.

Everyone's confidence was immediately stirred. They stared at their televisions and shouted, "Is that the Sun Descent Weapon?"

"A galactic-level superweapon! That's terrifying!"

The forums on Earth went wild when they saw this scene.

Everyone was stunned, as though a new world had been opened before them.

"Those special crumpled-paper glass planes flew into the sky and formed a magnifying glass placed outside Earth?"

"A magnifying glass sounds like children's play, but it's genuinely terrifying! A palm-sized magnifying glass can already set paper on fire when you're standing on the ground. Over in Tibet, one the size of a casserole pot can cook food and even scald someone to death. And this one is so enormous—plus it's in space."

"By my estimate, this magnifying glass has a mirror surface exceeding fifty square kilometers. It stands in the heavens, and because it is high enough, the shadow it casts is enlarged. It feels like it is about to block the sun over nearly half a continent."

"Destroying a Death Star!"

"These nations' Black Technology