The red light in the countless black cannon muzzles protruding from the fortress's underside intensified to its limit in an instant, staining the entire sky a blinding blood-red.
"Ryan, take the men and evacuate the people of the Flower Capital immediately!" Lorne stood atop the castle keep, looking up at the enormous steel monster in the sky, his voice low.
"Yes, Captain!" Ryan answered loudly, drawing the long gun at his waist and waving to the Marines and samurai below.
Ryan turned and roared at the Marines behind him, "Move! First squad, second squad, help the samurai evacuate the civilians!"
Denjiro also shouted to the samurai, "Get the women and children into the caves at the Quarry! Hurry!"
A young samurai watched the increasingly blinding red light in the sky, his legs shaking violently. "Lord Denjiro, that thing could flatten an entire mountain with one strike!"
Denjiro gripped his sword hilt, cold sweat seeping from his forehead. "Then we'll use our bodies to block the shock waves! We must not let the people die before us!"
The white fortress in the sky slowly descended, its enormous shadow enveloping all of Wano Country. The once-bright sky turned to night in an instant.
On the side of the fortress, the World Government's enormous cross emblem looked particularly glaring in the red light, giving off a cold, merciless gleam.
"So this is what the World Government has in reserve?" Denjiro stared at the behemoth in the sky and spoke through gritted teeth. "To eliminate Lord Lorne, they're actually going to wipe out innocent civilians like us along with him!"
"In the eyes of the Celestial Dragons, civilians from Non-Affiliated Nations like us don't even count as ants." Ryan snorted coldly, flames of anger flickering in his eyes. "All they care about is their