At 23:15 late at night, Restraint convened a meeting.
At 00:30, Homeland Agriculture was breached amid the chaos, building after building engulfed in flames.
At 00:40, the rain came pouring down.
At 01:00, the Conquest Legion entered the city.
Large formations of aircraft swept overhead from Sky Dome. After piercing the downpour, they left behind soul-shaking roars that echoed through the air. Searchlights from the helicopters shone down upon the rain-shrouded earth.
Dim flames still rose, slowly spreading through the Brilliant Light and torrential rain as gasoline flowed across the ground.
But soon, from the end of the empty highway, from the deepest reaches of the rain, came the low rumble of churning tracks. One armored vehicle after another emerged from the garrison outside the city through the curtain of rain.
Armored fighting vehicles, tanks, gunship helicopters, modern infantry divisions equipped with every conventional weapon, and over a thousand Armor Knights—the Conquest Legion rolled grandly into the Holy Capital.
They wound forward along the highway.
Earlier, helicopters had already flown overhead, their enormous loudspeakers issuing stern warnings for everyone to put down their weapons immediately and return home.
There would be no further warnings.
Anyone violating the curfew would be shot dead on the spot.
Anyone carrying a weapon would be riddled with bullets along with their companions.
Anyone who resisted would be burned to ashes by flamethrowers.
No exceptions.
One could imagine it: a brutal, cold, meticulous sweep down every street, screening the entire Holy Capital until the city had been restored to silence.
During that process, the Holy Capital would be paralyzed. Production and daily life would come to a complete standstill, and the ensuing chaos would bring even more deaths and unrest.
Until peace was finally restored.
Throughout the entire process, Eternal Paradise's power projection abroad would