A battle suddenly made easier

It was a scene of the heavens collapsing and the earth caving in.

Amid the dust billowing wildly through the air.

Mountain after mountain slowly vanished from its original position like collapsing high-rises, leaving only deep pits of varying sizes or chasms of unfathomable depth.

If the view could have kept pulling back, everyone would even have seen with perfect clarity how entire cities in this country were disappearing from the surface, swallowed on the spot like little biscuits by the constantly shifting plates of earth!!

Finally, as countless clouds of dust rose into the sky amid all the upheaval, blotting out the vast heavens.

The utterly gloomy sky inspired a heartfelt sense of foreboding, as though the end of the world had arrived right on schedule!!

However.

As they watched the scene of countless lives withering away below.

Among the many powerful figures observing the battlefield, someone immediately looked stricken with grief and lamented aloud:

"They really are running wild..."

"Those bastards are slaughtering on such a scale. They're utterly despicable!!"

With that.

That powerful figure immediately activated a divine ability.

Attempting to forcibly contain the shock waves that were still spreading!!

It was not particularly difficult.

The only difficulty was that the area involved was rather large.

To put it plainly, the upheaval on the surface really was nothing more than collateral shock waves.

The overwhelming majority of those nine people's power had been directed underground.

And precisely because of that.

Although this country looked as though the apocalypse had arrived, quite a few people remained alive even now.

If those nine people's power had truly been directed at the surface.

Honestly, the country's entire surface territory would have become scorched earth in a single instant.

As for the civilians?

They would all have been cremated on the