Mortals had plenty of courage, but courage alone was not enough. They needed more nuclear bombs.
The factories ran all production lines at full capacity, and a reward system was introduced: anyone who proposed a way to improve nuclear bombs would receive a generous reward.
Scientists, frontline workers, and university students studied and researched day and night, pooling their wisdom and coming up with quite a few ideas.
The Star Palace entered war mode, relying on its ample stockpile of nuclear bombs to deliver punishing counterattacks against the Inverse Star Alliance.
The Inverse Star Alliance kept capturing islands at the front, but its rear had already become a pot of boiling chaos. At the front, retreating mortals also left them a few gifts.
Booby traps, for instance, looked like treasures, but inspecting them with divine sense or picking them up for a closer look would trigger a nuclear explosion.
In just three months, the Inverse Star Alliance captured dozens of small islands in succession, but its cultivator casualties also exceeded twenty percent of its total strength. Among them were more than thirty Golden Core cultivators, including one at early Nascent Soul.
That Nascent Soul cultivator had been bombarded by a chain of nuclear booby traps and died along with four Golden Core elders under his command. Even the island sank.
They knew how the war had begun, but had never predicted it would be fought so brutally.
"We haven't even approached the Star Palace's core territory yet, and it's already this bloody. If we keep going, who can guarantee we'll win? And the Demonic Path has gone far too far. I don't consider myself a good person, but I would never sacrifice hundreds of thousands of mortals across an entire island like they do." Some in the Orthodox Path were