Yet sometimes, no matter how unyielding one's will and hope, they would be crushed into nothingness by overwhelming force.
Standing on ruins strewn with warship fragments, a black-haired warrior of the Human Race sang out, "Glory of the Eastern Nation!" Then a super-laser blast reduced him to ash!
A human warrior with Western features struggled to his feet after being knocked down, singing, "Splendor of the Western Land!" In an instant, a mech cleaved him in two!
A white-robed immortal hovered in deep space, softly chanting, "Long Sword Slays All Darkness." His flying sword pierced an alien spacecraft and killed every alien being inside, but he perished in space when the craft exploded!
A mighty cultivator of the Ghost Clan had just harvested the souls of an entire swath of the alien fleet and sung, "Flesh and Blood Become Kindling," when a soul mesh fired by a higher-grade starship captured and killed him!
A squad of Angel warriors sang out, "Bodies Shatter the Starry River," then charged with blazing longswords at an alien mech column several times their number, giving no thought to defeat or death!
A towering deity split into nine identical figures and raised towering waves in deep space, engulfing a great wave of incoming meteor fortresses, only to be pinned dead against Pluto by a superalloy spear thrust from the void!
Across the Five Great Epochs, countless humans raced ahead to die in battle, and another, younger wave died behind them!
On Earth, in the colonial cities of the planets, within the space cities, and in the Divine Realm, the Immortal Realm, the Underworld, and Heaven, young men and women marched to war beneath the reluctant gazes of their children, while parents with broken bodies watched their sons and daughters depart!
Human civilization had begun committing its