Several officers clapped their hands hard, their applause steady and forceful.
Some even had reddened eyes.
Not because they were moved, but because the pressure that Seventh-Order Demon Venerable brought was simply too great.
From the moment it was discovered tracking the missiles back toward their source, the entire Command Center had been shrouded in almost suffocating fear.
The Seventh-Order Demon Venerable traveled at over a thousand meters per second.
Once it found Great Xia's Underground Cities and broke inside, mutual destruction would be the only option against a creature that could only be killed with nuclear bombs.
And "mutual destruction" meant that both Tianxiong and Tianyong Underground Cities, along with over a million soldiers and civilians, would all be finished.
Fortunately, none of that had happened.
At the very last moment before it closed in, the precisely calculated nuclear bomb array had fulfilled its mission.
Lin Shigong let out a long breath, his heart finally settling back into place, and said:
"Good! But don't let your guard down. Search the surrounding area carefully for suspicious targets."
The adjutant acknowledged him and went to relay the orders.
The atmosphere in the Command Center eased a little.
Someone picked up a cup of completely cold tea and gulped some down.
Someone leaned back in their chair and wiped away sweat.
Someone took off their headphones and rubbed their reddened ears.
But before they could finish breathing that sigh of relief, a communications soldier watching another screen suddenly shouted,
"Report!!"
"An Eighth-Order Demon God-level entity has been spotted above the Shengdun!"
Everyone froze in astonishment.
The fear that had just dissipated came pouring back over their heads like a bucket of ice water.
Everyone turned toward that screen at once.
The communications soldier worked quickly, pulling up satellite reconnaissance footage and projecting