Forging the Holy Court
Chapter 979

The Han King's Scheme

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Wreckage choked the sea, blood dyed its waters red, and pale, bloated corpses lay scattered everywhere.

The Battle of Hawaii lasted three days and four nights, engulfing tens of thousands of miles of sea. Nearly thirty million troops, over a hundred massive ships, and dozens of divine cities took part, along with countless war machines and military devices of every kind.

The North and South American camp had gathered the powerful Otherworlder Factions of the North and South American Continents, deploying roughly seventeen million troops, over ninety percent of them Otherworlders. Their forces were immensely powerful. Among Otherworlders, they could look down proudly upon the entire world; even the Great Huan Fleet was clearly their inferior.

But war was not a simple exercise in addition and subtraction. Its countless factors were extraordinarily complex-logistics, mood, morale, fighting spirit, outside influences, and more. Even the greatest mathematician could not calculate them all!

In this battle, the North and South American camp lost roughly twelve million troops, over a dozen massive ships, and more than thirty divine cities belonging to various factions. Its war machines and military devices were almost completely wiped out. And this was despite the Great Huan Fleet refraining from exterminating them, deliberately sparing several main islands equipped with magical Teleportation Formations so the camp's remaining troops could withdraw.

The Great Huan Fleet's casualties were far from light either. Its twenty Special Legions suffered casualties of roughly one-fifth of their strength. Even the Ravenous Wolf Guards and Huan Martial Guards of the Great Huan Forbidden Guard suffered over eight thousand casualties, despite being led personally by the Huan Emperor; otherwise, their losses would have been greater still. Of the ten million Great Huan troops, over six million became casualties, more than half their number. Among the roughly one and a

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