Five hours later, just after noon, the Imperial fleet maintaining full surveillance of the planet from orbit reported that strange plants had sprouted all over Earth. Their branches and leaves looked like alloys twisted and smelted together, while their petals were clearly clusters of crystals, as if carved from gemstones—red with a murderous aura, purple with an eerie beauty.
In theory, it should have been a breathtakingly beautiful sight. But perhaps because of the strange glimmers that the naked eye could not detect, and the hazy ripples that appeared in the air, the atmosphere turned oppressive and gloomy, as if dark clouds had descended right in front of them.
All kinds of Void Realm monsters suddenly appeared on this utterly ordinary, peaceful planet, to the astonished and terrified gaze of Earth's inhabitants.
To be fair, Earth really was just an ordinary habitable planet. It had no buffs like unusually high spiritual energy, and there had never been any major incidents such as a Void Realm overlap or a Leviathan passing through, as far back as the written records went.
The people who had lived on Earth for generations truly had little experience dealing with such events.
However, before the monsters still coalescing into physical forms could charge into densely populated residential areas, the Imperial assault troops stationed there struck first.
Compared with the people of Earth, Imperial soldiers clearly had far more experience with this sort of thing.
All live-fire weapons were taken out of use. Robots replaced the assault troops and grenadiers on the front lines, coordinating with the Starrealm Knights. Various armed vehicles joined the operation, using plasma cutters and concentrated blaster fire to tear through the invaders' hides. Meanwhile, small scorpion robots rapidly infiltrated the battlefield, slipping through gaps in the throngs of snarling monsters to destroy