Above the Earth's blue skies.
Earth's atmosphere was pierced like a sheet of window paper as alien spacecraft shaped like Iron Thistles continuously broke through the clouds. The instant they appeared, they brought a terrifying sound, like the mournful blare of a horn.
They abruptly halted in midair, then launched black-glowing missiles that crashed toward the ground.
There was no mercy.
At the same time.
Ground interception systems in nations across Earth activated one after another.
Interceptor missiles soared into the sky and exploded in midair, creating powerful thermal fields that forcibly detonated the black-glowing missiles before they could descend.
Ground-based interception turrets and rapid-fire machine guns unleashed streams of flaming bullets into the sky, weaving together in midair. The black-glowing missiles exploded the instant they were hit!
Air forces from various nations also piloted their most advanced jet fighters into the high skies!
Iron Thistle alien craft and Earth's fighter jets became entangled in massive dogfights, with aircraft from both sides constantly falling from the sky.
Yet none of the crashed craft revealed any aliens, nor were there any escape pods.
Quite a few Earth pilots ejected, but before they could reach the ground, they were caught in aerial explosions and blown to pieces.
Dazzling flashes and thunderous explosions filled the sky.
Humanity was defending its last home.
They gave everything they had. There was no other choice.
At this moment.
At the space agency base in Folo State of the European Nation, three space launch rockets rose rapidly into the air.
The main bodies of the rockets were enormous orange fuel tanks.
The truly critical components were the white missiles, less than ten meters long, mounted on the backs of those fuel tanks.
These were the European Nation's thermonuclear missiles.
At present, at least fifty percent of the