Beyond the atmosphere.
The three DF-15C Missiles had completed their ascent and attitude adjustments.
In the near vacuum, they turned their warheads downward and locked onto three precise coordinates supplied by BeiDou Satellites and the Quantum Navigation system.
The next second, their rear engines ignited a second time.
The three missiles became three meteors, plunging vertically toward the ground of the Terra Continent at over Mach 10, carrying enough kinetic energy to tear through everything.
Demon Clan and humans alike saw only something flash downward, as though it were an illusion.
There was no violent explosion, no dazzling flash of fire, only a bottomless hole left in the ground.
The instant the first earth-penetrating warhead touched the ground, its incredibly tough nano-tungsten alloy tip, driven by terrifying kinetic energy, sliced in like a red-hot knife through butter.
Soil, rock, geological strata... before it, they were as fragile as paper.
Violent friction between the missile body and the rock generated temperatures that instantly vaporized the surrounding material, forming a temporary vacuum channel that further reduced resistance to penetration.
One hundred meters!
Two hundred meters!
Two hundred and ten meters!
In less than a second, the missile covered a distance that would have taken the Earth Dragon time to burrow through, appearing precisely above it.
The Earth Dragon, advancing at full speed, sensed only that a black, pointed object radiating death had broken through the rock overhead and entered its perception.
It was just a dozen or so meters above its head!
Before it could even react, the delayed fuse inside the warhead activated.
Boom-!!!
An utterly muffled blast that seemed capable of shaking the soul erupted 210 meters underground.
The violent energy of the high-energy composite explosive was completely confined within the narrow tunnel, with none escaping.
The earth-penetrating missile's combined