Faced with a destructive strike on the scale of an asteroid hitting a planet, both the plant lifeforms and the mechanical demons on the ground suffered badly.
Although the explosion produced by this purely physical impact generated no nuclear radiation.
Its intense heat and shock wave were not much weaker than those of a nuclear blast.
Still, the explosion was nowhere near as powerful as the asteroid impact that had wiped out the dinosaurs.
Because the Burning Legion Warship was top-heavy, it plunged nose-first into the ground and exploded when it crashed.
As a result, it only left a crater five or six hundred meters across, completely destroying everything within an area of over a hundred square kilometers.
Judging by the area it destroyed, the explosion was only equivalent to ten Hiroshima atomic bombs spread out evenly.
If the Burning Legion Warship had struck the ground broadside, it might even have produced another Tunguska explosion!
Yet this attack, deployed in actual combat with power comparable to a nuclear strike, still dealt a devastating blow to the ground units.
A searing blast wave swept across the land, tearing everything in its path to pieces.
Even the demon tanks, which had the strongest defenses, could not withstand the blast wave.
Their massive felsteel hulls rapidly melted as they were hurled away, turning into lumps of twisted scrap.
Watching more than a dozen mushroom clouds rise from the ground, Herad was speechless at the Burning Legion's madness.
Then he thought of their evil master, Sargeras, and felt that this situation made sense.
At the very last moment before the resurrected Titans joined forces to capture him, that deranged Fallen Titan had still insisted on plunging his Giant Sword into Azeroth's Silithus desert.
Fortunately, it was a barren wasteland, with few people active there.