The sky over Mary Geoise burned red.
Artillery fire rained down on the outer defenses, the explosions staining the entire sky a dark crimson. Smoke rolled like the breath of a great beast, swallowing this white city. The once lofty Holy Land now collapsed, shattered, and wailed amid the flames.
After Bai Qi led the Heavenly Punishment Corps in crushing the outer defenses, Hua Country's million-strong army surged in like a tide. Five armies advanced along separate routes, their generals each displaying their might as they entered fateful clashes with the World Government's strongest fighters. Every collision shook the Red Line, and the shock waves from every attack were enough to tear apart an ordinary powerhouse's body.
In the square before Pangaea Castle, dark mist churned around Bai Qi like a tide. Yveltal's enormous phantom blotted out the sky, its crimson eyes gazing down from above. He went straight for the Five Elders, the power of death spreading like a tide, rotting the rubble in its path into drifting ash. Forced to fight, the Five Elders immediately transformed, and the two sides launched into battle.
The air above the battlefield was as heavy as lead, and even the wind dared not pass through.
The other generals also found their opponents.
The entire war was proceeding at the Hua Empire's pace.
And deep within Mary Geoise, the true clash at the pinnacle had only just begun.
In a square in Mary Geoise's Seventh District, the clamor stopped abruptly. Marble pillars with eight hundred years of history stood all around, carved with the Celestial Dragons' so-called "glorious achievements" in ruling the world.
Now, the place was terrifyingly quiet, like hell on earth.
Hundreds of Hua Country's elite soldiers lay strewn across the ground. Their bodies had assumed positions no human body could