What did people usually imagine weapons to be like? Or rather, what was the definition of a weapon?
Perhaps their forms could vary endlessly, their attack effects could be dazzling and colorful, and their names and uses could differ in every way. But I thought that basically all conventional weapons were founded on at least one common point: attacking a target, possessing destructive or deterrent power, damaging or injuring the target's structure, function, or any other intact aspect, using various means of destruction to ruin the target's normal state—I thought weapons were basically supposed to be things like that. But clearly, the armament Bellavella had shown me, called the Radiant Halo, was something entirely different.
A vast number of black-and-red Fallen Apostle ships appeared around the Radiant Halo. After comparing their proportions, I found that the Radiant Halo was probably less than half the size of an Eternal-class vessel—much smaller than I had expected. After displaying the basic dimensions of that golden ring, the Radiant Halo began charging and demonstrated its most basic attack method. Well, to be honest, although the effects were spectacular, its power seemed rather ordinary. Huge magic arrays could appear around the golden ring, launching attacks through dense barrages. Those barrages were probably comparable in power to the main guns of small and medium warships, making them somewhat inadequate against a super-mothership like an Eternal-class vessel. During the demonstration, it took more than ten minutes of saturation bombardment against an entirely unresisting enemy ship before its shields went out. On a real battlefield, it would be impossible to bombard a single unit so smoothly and continuously. To achieve the same firepower output, it would probably take five or six Radiant Halos to break an Eternal-class Mothership's shields within a sufficiently short time.
But Bellavella told me