"Boom!!!!"
City of Abundance.
Outside the river embankment.
A world-shattering explosion utterly shattered the afternoon silence.
Flying rubble and dust rained down, making the Falcon Kingdom soldiers crouched in the trenches instinctively lower their heads and shield the mess tins in their arms.
"Fuck—"
"My ears... damn it!"
"What was that sound?"
"A nuke...?"
It was a rumor that had been spreading through the army lately.
The Legion planned to erase the City of Abundance from the map with a nuclear bomb.
Could it be...
Had they already used one?
Covering his throbbing ears, a soldier struggled to his feet, found his steel helmet and put it on, then poked half his head over the trench and anxiously looked toward the City of Abundance.
However...
That despair-inducing river embankment still stood.
A trace of despair flashed through his numb eyes.
As though he had realized something, he turned his stiff neck and tried to look behind him.
The instant he looked back, the light in his constricted pupils suddenly scattered, and the despair hidden deep behind the windows of his soul spread across his entire face.
Smoke.
Fire.
Shimmering heat waves.
The entire world seemed to be burning.
Billowing black smoke connected heaven and earth, like a torrent pouring down from the Styx. No matter whether he looked up, left, or right, he could not see its end.
At the center of the explosion lay a crater a hundred meters wide. A corner of the vast battlefield had been wiped away, while upturned earth, rubble, and corpses... buried winding trenches one after another.
There was not a single cry of pain there.
Only deathly silence.
He remembered that it had been the position of the 7th Thousand-Man Unit of the 1st Ten-Thousand-Man Unit. He even remembered that those young men