As the mountainside was filled with a sea of corpses as the army charged forward, tanks appeared and came to a stop on a distant hilltop, seemingly out of nowhere.
Half of the entire imperial city was already surrounded by a torrent of steel.
"Boom!!!" With the first round of cannon fire, shells rained down like a curtain of rain.
"Hold head high!!!"
With piercing screams and the tearing of flesh, the bodies of the dozen or so giant monsters on the outermost edge exploded, their limbs blasted into pieces by the gunpowder explosion.
"Boom!"
The city walls of the imperial city not far away were covered by a dense barrage of cannonballs, which blasted open huge gaps in the walls.
Accompanied by piercing screams, a large number of believers died violent deaths.
However, such injuries are only considered superficial wounds for Vampire of Prince rank.
Before those enormous monsters even collapsed to the ground, their bodies began to repair themselves rapidly, and even those driven away with huge holes blasted into them were almost back to normal.
But the war has already begun in earnest; how could they possibly be attacking each other back and forth?
Before the fallen giant monsters could even stand up, another volley of shells and long-range artillery fire came hurtling down.
The types of warheads used were extremely diverse, including explosive bombs, incendiary bombs, and even white phosphorus bombs.
The air was thick with smoke, and the sounds of fire and explosions were incessant.
Since the start of the war, artillery shells have been fired continuously.
A barrage of shells rained down from the sky, covering the entire front of the imperial city in a massive artillery barrage.
Those believers on the city wall who were slow to dodge were annihilated by the cannon fire. The massive city wall was completely destroyed and reduced to ruins in a short time.
Abraham and the other fifty-odd giant monsters on the wilderness were completely bombarded by the artillery fire. Huge and ethereal howls echoed from the barrage as their massive bodies were riddled with holes and almost completely pulverized.
If you've ever seen Katyusha's relentless barrage of arrows, you might be able to imagine this magnificent scene.
Even Vampire of Prince rank like Abraham, possessing boundless power, were like flickering candles in the wind under such overwhelming bombardment, barely able to take flight.
However, this still only represents land-based combat capabilities.
With the ground forces along the entire city wall and the Vampire of Prince rank like Abraham completely suppressed, finally...
The roar of airplanes came from the distant horizon.
"Buzzing..."
Almost as soon as the sound was heard, the plane appeared in the distant sky.
World War II-shaped airplanes roared across the sky, leaving streaks in the fog.
The densely packed formations of aircraft stretched as far as the eye could see, roaring down from the sky like a swarm of locusts. (A desolate dream, too long, exclusive to Berlin air raid towers)
The sheer number of aircraft was overwhelming; their roar even drowned out the sounds of the battlefield.
"No, Your Majesty!!!"
Hit by artillery fire, Abraham, whose body was on the verge of being completely torn apart, let out a desperate wail amidst the intense barrage. His eyes were fixed on the planes in the sky, and his cries were like the mournful cry of a cuckoo, enough to make anyone who heard them shudder.
As seemingly endless planes streaked across the sky.
"Da da da..."
Like laser beams, anti-aircraft machine gun bullet chains appeared from within the imperial city, forming a strangulation chain that roared into the sky.
"For Your Majesty!"
" Ascension!"
"Kill them!"
Accompanied by piercing screams, the fanatical believers, who had long since disregarded life and death, faced the whistling shells falling from the planes and controlled the thousands of anti-aircraft guns erected in the imperial city to roar into the sky, forming a strangulation chain to annihilate the aircraft group.
However, the anti-aircraft weapons of this period were still too weak, and most of these so-called anti-aircraft guns could only serve a decorative purpose.
As a massive amount of bombs rained down from the sky, the entire imperial city exploded, with smoke and flames shooting into the air amidst the explosions, completely ravaged by the falling shells.
The howling anti-aircraft guns were almost completely silenced. The entire imperial city was no longer the prosperous place it once was, after such a massive barrage of fire. Smoke and ruins filled the land, along with corpses and spilled blood.
Even Abraham and Elizabeth, who were just moments ago so imposing, and even the fifty-odd Prince bats, were now completely suppressed by the artillery fire. Although they had not yet died due to their past strong vitality and regenerative abilities, they were about to die.
The entire imperial city was reduced to ruins in a single day, with only a few hidden believers surviving by chance, now crying out helplessly amidst the ruins.
Even the pale tower was already teetering on the brink of collapse under the cover of artillery fire.
Only then, through the rooftop blasted open by artillery fire at the very top of the tower, could one glimpse the Pale God.
Even now, Norton of Biyang was still sitting upright on his pure silver throne!
Even though the entire tower had been blown to near collapse, even though everything around him had been reduced to ruins, even though flames were still burning beside him.
Her slender, perfectly pale body remained pure and holy, untouched by any filth, and with her long, flowing silver hair, she sat regally on the throne like a sculpture.
It seemed as if they were waiting for the war to end, or perhaps they were waiting for the encirclement and annihilation to begin.
This Biyang is such a show-off!
Abraham, nearly killed by the bomb, looked up at the tower and at His Majesty, who still sat regally on the silver throne.
His mental tension snapped almost instantly, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood from the giant bat-shaped head.
"Your Majesty..."
After dropping their bombs, a swarm of planes roared across the sky, but this was still not the end of it.
The Northern Continent clearly wanted to destroy this Pale Holy See in one fell swoop.
Following this massive formation of aircraft, another formation of fifteen aircraft flew in from the sky.
Thinking with Abraham's current mindset, it was clear that these fifteen planes that arrived last were very unusual. If his guess was correct, these planes were probably not carrying ordinary bombs!
Abraham's eyes widened in disbelief, and a thought immediately arose in his mind.
"It's over, I'm doomed!"
Immediately afterwards, he felt a rare sense of genuine relaxation.
"Hopefully, Duoxia will receive what I've written..."
Abraham sighed inwardly, feeling a strange sense of relief as he approached death.
If he were allowed to reflect quietly at this moment, perhaps he could truly shed his old self and become a true sage of thought.
Unfortunately, the plane couldn't wait.
With the roar of airplanes, fifteen planes streaked across the sky.
As the aircraft cabin opened, fifteen enormous, pitch-black bombs fell from the sky, but then deployed their parachutes mid-air and slowly drifted downwards.
Clearly, these fifteen enormous bombs were the true weapons of mass destruction intended to completely nuke the Holy See —nuclear weapons!
Only then did the Pale God Norton, seated on his pure silver throne, calmly raise his head and gaze at the sky.
That slender, pale body finally slowly rose from the throne.
His body was stretched out, his full head of silver hair cascading down from his shoulders to the ground, fully displaying his pale and holy form.
Her body came to a standstill, and she slowly opened her delicate little mouth.
Its originally small lips gradually split open all the way to the base of its ears, and its mouth grew out layers of sharp, fine teeth, like those of a lamprey.
It opened its mouth wide, pointing it towards the sky.
"Ha!!!"
An endless Pressure of life, carrying a heavy roar, rang out from its mouth. It seemed to be a roar, yet it also seemed to be an inhalation, or perhaps it was the mind-blowing babbling of a demon awakening.
However, the sound traveled throughout the entire Southern Continent.
Under Abraham's desperate gaze, the fifteen nuclear bombs in the sky had already burst into dazzling flames and entered the formal detonation phase.
But at that moment, the roar of that Pale God rang out.
That roar, carrying boundless Pressure, was like the murmur of God, the lament of a deity.
The fifteen dazzling suns that had burst forth in the sky seemed to encounter a terrifying black hole at this moment, flowing towards the pale tower like water being sucked into the hole.
This scene is hard to understand.
The flames of the explosion, the magnificent shockwave, and even the light released by the nuclear bomb seemed to be sucked into a black hole, flowing like water in the sky and into the mouth of the Pale God who stood atop the pale tower.
Can light flow?
Abraham, Elizabeth, and all the survivors, all those who witnessed this unprecedented and miraculous sight, all had this same question in their minds at this moment.
However, the light from the explosion, and indeed all the explosive energy of the fifteen nuclear bombs, flowed through the sky like water and into the mouth of that Pale God!
"Boom!" A muffled explosion rang out from the top of the pale tower, barely audible.
The fifteen suns that had just been released into the sky have now completely vanished.
The sky returned to its previous hazy, gray state.
Just like the nuclear explosion we just witnessed, it was all just a pipe dream for everyone.
Only the figure of the Pale God, who spread his wings and slowly flew out from the pale tower, hovering in mid-air above it, confirmed that everything that had just happened was reality, not a dream.
Abraham's eyes widened in disbelief, his battered face filled with terror and astonishment.
What kind of power is this? Your Majesty, do you really possess such great strength?
Why have we never witnessed Your Majesty displaying such power from beginning to end?
However, the Crown floating in the sky at this moment seemed to have completely lost its humanity, leaving only the purest form of destruction.
"I am... the Pale God, the only... god in Garden of Eden."
Those who attempt to kill gods will ultimately face... the destruction of Garden of Eden!
"Buzz!" The extreme Pressure, accompanied by Norton's emotionless words, instantly spread throughout the entire Southern Continent, as if announcing the arrival of the end times!