Head-On Clash! (Second Update, Please Subscribe)

No one had expected such a grand, massive battle to arrive so abruptly... What had their original plan been again?

Reclaim the lost territory of the provincial capital.

Restore the main industries.

Then use the provincial capital as the center to spread into the southeastern region, helping Resistance Army forces everywhere reclaim as much lost territory as possible.

That had been the script they'd arranged from the start.

But now, damn it, the script had completely gone off the rails! They'd been perfectly fine, eating grilled meat and chatting in the tavern. Life hadn't exactly been blissful, but it had been comfortable enough. They'd even passed around a diary picked up from the ruins, one that recorded the final days of a very interesting person.

Because of that person,

everyone's spirits had been lifted.

Their morale had been at its peak.

Then, in the blink of an eye, an eye-like spirit-world entity had appeared in the sky. In another blink, after that eye-like entity was shattered, it directly projected even more power over—and even projected its true body here.

Under the influence of that terrifying aura, even the real world became distorted.

It was as though they had entered a world painted by Van Gogh—twisted and brilliant, filled with a feeling that unsettled the mind and inspired revulsion and nausea.

It wasn't targeting anyone.

Its mere appearance had already warped reality, transforming all the "normality" people took for granted in unpredictable ways.

That was not an enemy they could deal with at this stage.

This realization emerged clearly and firmly in Old Man Lu's heart.

If even he could realize that,

there was no way Li Yao hadn't realized it too.

Yet Li Yao still charged into the sky... Damn it, although Second Uncle had always hoped the kid would