A humming like the vibration of space resounded across the globe.
Through the connection of causal threads, only the eardrums of the relevant combat commanders and staff suffered intense pain.
Ordinary civilians had no idea what had happened.
Just as people were beginning to recover from the shock.
The images on the monitors made them unable to believe their eyes.
Inside underground launch silos deep in the Sierra Nevada.
Intercontinental missiles standing upright seemed to have been weathered by time, instantly rusting, collapsing, and turning into heaps of scrap metal.
Beneath the Siberian ice fields, mobile launch vehicles.
All electronic equipment began smoking and completely shut down.
Strategic nuclear submarines cruising deep in the Arctic Ocean.
All weapon systems instantly locked up, while reactor output inexplicably dropped to its minimum. They slowly sank like dead fish.
...Every nuclear-armed nation, every hidden strategic weapons stockpile, laser weapons platform,
Even powerful energy weapons still under development in certain laboratories...
No matter where they were hidden or how tightly they were protected.
At this moment.
They were like ice and snow exposed to sunlight.
They instantly failed, melted away, and turned into useless parts and waste!
In just a few seconds.
All the strategic weapons of mass destruction humanity had spent decades and trillions of dollars building,
The ones they had been so proud of,
The ones capable of destroying the planet several times over.
All of them, completely and without exception, had become mere decorations and scrap metal!
Silence.
A deathly silence shrouded the globe.
Then.
Came unprecedented shock and terror, sweeping through the hearts of everyone who knew what had happened!
This was not war.
This was divine punishment!
This was a dimensionality-reduction strike!
This was absolute power they could neither comprehend nor resist!
They finally understood.
Just what kind of