Although they had not held much hope for the success of this surprise attack, the generals of the Joint Command still did everything they could to arrange this cruise missile strike out of professional military discipline.
Backed by every major power on the planet, the joint forces were truly lavish with their resources.
Even for a strike they did not expect to succeed, the joint forces had committed more than 5,000 cruise missiles.
To avoid being wiped out by a single spell like the advance air corps, the generals of the Joint Command had carefully planned the cruise missiles' flight paths and divided them into five groups.
These five groups of cruise missiles enhanced with Honkai Energy would attack Moros from different directions, and more than 1,000 missiles per group would be enough to guarantee the strike's effectiveness.
While ensuring their own safety, the cruise missiles maintained as tight a formation as possible, minimizing their target profile and reducing the risk of being shot down.
In reality, missile salvos underwent a certain degree of flight-path planning. There was always some spacing between missiles to ensure safety if one was destroyed. They would never be like in certain cartoons, where the protagonist hit one missile and all the rest immediately exploded along with it.
However, against a Legendary Rank spellcaster, even one of the weaker Legendary spellcasters, this level of firepower held no practical meaning at all.
In Moros's hands, the modified Level 3 Destruction Magic, Chain Lightning, became an incomparably powerful lightning storm.
Amid the crackling frenzy of silver-white lightning, the dense swarms of incoming missiles turned into brilliant fireworks, blooming across the sky.
With the combined assistance of radar and satellites, the Joint Command received news of the cruise missile strike's failure immediately.
"All right, we have to admit