"Damn it, damn it...!"
Inside the underground Meeting Room on Heavenward Continent, the Elderly Man stared at the images on the screen, his expression grim and dark.
1,400 kilometers was the detection range of their continent's Watchtowers.
And now—
Within that range.
Over a thousand Crimson Beams blasted toward them from nearly every direction, engulfing the entire continent.
War.
Had begun!
This was the Mortal Domain's counterattack. Even a rabbit would fight desperately before death. He had never expected the Mortal Domain not to retaliate; he simply hadn't expected its retaliation to be so ferocious and bizarre!
Detected energy intensity: Level-1 Sky-Piercing Pillar. Detected energy intensity: Level-1 Sky-Piercing Pillar. Detected energy intensity: Level-1 Sky-Piercing Pillar.
Every single one was a Level-1 Sky-Piercing Pillar.
That was all the information the Peace Sculpture provided. But the earlier Sky-Piercing Pillar explosions had already made him realize its information was wrong. Or, more precisely, the Mortal Domain possessed a way to conceal the energy intensity of its Sky-Piercing Pillars!
At this point, he couldn't distinguish the Strategic Sky-Piercing Pillars from the Standard Sky-Piercing Pillars. All he could do was—
Launch Strategic Sky-Piercing Pillars one after another to intercept them indiscriminately.
However—
The overwhelming majority of the incoming Sky-Piercing Pillars were Standard Sky-Piercing Pillars.
The two sides' expenditure was nowhere near equal.
For the Mortal Domain, stockpiling high-level Sky-Piercing Pillars took some effort. But stockpiling Level-1 Sky-Piercing Pillars was simple, even during wartime. They could stockpile one in a day or two, and they were cheap. They could have as many as they wanted.
He could only watch as the number of Strategic Sky-Piercing Pillars stockpiled on Heavenward Continent, displayed in the bottom-right corner of the screen, rapidly dwindled. They couldn't afford this attrition!
"Heavenward Continent is under fierce counterattack from the Mortal