Within the defensive line, more than ten million Empire soldiers gripped their weapons.
Fear showed on their faces, but no one took a single step back.
Before the fleet that filled the sky, three True God Avatars thirty thousand feet tall spanned the star domain. The spectral avatars opened their golden vertical pupils and looked down upon the Empire's defenses.
"Exterminate this realm. Leave nothing alive."
The divine decree rolled toward them like a tangible wave of sound.
Hundreds of small stars at the front of the defensive line shattered on the spot. Blood seeped from the eyes, ears, noses, and mouths of more than ten thousand soldiers below the starcore realm as they fell to their knees on the warship decks.
Inside the command center, the Deputy Commander clenched his teeth hard enough to shatter one.
"Activate the Sun Abyss Project!"
He pressed the blood-red firing button.
Deep within the Empire, the outer layers of three colossal stars exploded simultaneously.
Three Planet-Buster Fortresses rose from the stellar cores, golden magma made of stellar matter flowing over their hulls.
The main cannon on the front of each fortress had a bore over ten thousand miles wide. Coronal energy powerful enough to incinerate planets churned inside the barrels.
"Sun Abyss Main Cannons, fire in unison!"
Three white pillars of light shot out simultaneously.
Each beam was over a thousand miles in diameter, its temperature approaching that of a stellar core. All light along its path evaporated.
The three beams struck the God Clan's vanguard fleet with pinpoint accuracy.
The white light of the explosions swallowed the entire star domain. Hundreds of Divine-Rune Warships vaporized within the beams, leaving not even wreckage behind.
A brief cheer erupted in the command center.
But it lasted only two seconds.
As the white light faded,