A magnificent holy war, a war that even the Pale God Norton would be proud of.
Because this was the most devastating, exaggerated, magnificent, and shocking interstellar war that erupted at the peak of humanity's development!
Even the artificial sun, Gore, hailed as the weapon of annihilation, was repeatedly detonated during this war, all to restrict the advance of the only Sixth Stage powerhouse, Abraham, and to give the ground forces more time to attack.
Of course, the original intention was still for the higher-ups of the Human Federation Government to survive longer.
But none of that matters. Even if the original intention of this Human Federation was the most humble, the most insignificant, and the most despicable—sacrificing countless people to buy them a longer lifespan—the filth and all the depravity behind it cannot overshadow the human brilliance released by this grand war!
"Buzz..."
"Buzz..."
"Buzz..."
A shockwave struck, causing the entire planet to vibrate and resonate. The sky was filled with dazzling light, and the heat radiation caused the environment to heat up rapidly, reaching over forty-eight degrees Celsius in just a short time.
The entire planet was shaken by a magnitude 4 earthquake, and debris fell from the tops of some collapsed buildings.
Looking up at the sky, the enormous sun shone brightly, but then quickly went out after only a few dozen seconds.
However, in just about ten minutes, wave after wave of high-temperature radiation would sweep across the earth, burning the atmosphere until it glowed crimson, causing plants to spontaneously combust without fire, and causing everything on walls and even plastic to begin to curl up, fall off, soften, and catch fire.
Even along with the heat radiation, the shockwaves generated by the massive air blasts will simultaneously sweep across the planet, triggering minor earthquakes.
If humans hadn't evolved long ago, they would have all perished in this harsh environment.
However, even today, they are still able to survive on a large scale, constantly fleeing and hiding, crying out in despair.
However, what awaits them is the next cosmic boom and the scorching sun that once again burns in the sky!
Despite these circumstances, the fighting on the ground continued unabated.
The battle barges, which had been idle in the starry sky, continued to fall into the landing craft one after another, and squads of Church knights were being sent down to the planet as if there were no end in sight.
Even as wave after wave of heat and earthquakes struck, these combat units clad in power armor faithfully carried out their orders, never ceasing even in the face of death.
"Whoosh... Bang!!!"
With a piercing whistling sound, a landing craft crashed through the damaged building walls and ground, plunging into the ground floor and creating a huge crater.
"Puff!!!"
With the sound of the airlock being released, a series of Church knights appeared from beneath the slowly opening hatch.
"Ha, heretics! All those who do not honor the Pale God, may they be annihilated!"
There's no need to adapt; they're in berserk mode from the moment they step out. Even in such harsh environments, even with wave after wave of heat radiation and earthquakes scorching their power armor shells, their devout faith instantly takes over when they see the fleeing civilians and the army of the Human Federation.
The power sword flashed, and flames erupted from the power armor. The Church knight, who had just landed, struggled to break free from the landing pod, raised his greatsword, and leaped high into the air, slashing down at the fleeing civilians and soldiers.
"Brother Delga, activate your hidden energy source and immediately sacrifice yourself to destroy that underground escape fortress that harbors refugees and heretics!"
The brutal command, delivered directly to death by the Church knight, was utterly cruel.
However, faced with such a brutal order, the monk named Delga did not hesitate at all and responded almost instantly with fanaticism.
"Yes, Vice Instructor!"
As soon as he finished speaking, his figure shot into the air, the beeping of nuclear bombs echoing around him, extinguishing the flames on his body. He used his power armor to withstand the incoming bullets and lasers to prevent the bombs from burning him up.
Such a display of piety is downright insane!
Even the knights of the Human Federation, who were free to believe, were horrified by such devout faith and fled in all directions, fearing that they would be destroyed by the bombs.
One sun after another exploded in the sky, wave after wave of heat swept across the galaxy, plunging it into utter doom, awaiting its final destruction...
However, before the Church knights known as the Delga could reach the underground fortress, another sun in the sky went out.
A strange rhythm arose from nowhere and then swept across the entire galaxy in an instant.
"Eee-yah-yah... woo-woo-woo-ah-ah..." A sound like a murmur suddenly rang out in the midst of the violent war. It was very weak, but it clearly reached everyone's ears.
Even in the vacuum of outer space, the spaceship was still caught up in these delirious ramblings.
Brother Delga suddenly stopped, and the ground troops fighting fiercely on the surrounding front lines also paused their movements. Even the sun in outer space stopped shining, and the warships ceased their gunfire.
A very bad premonition arose in the hearts of all the survivors.
Brother Delga stood still, then suddenly turned his head as if deep in thought.
"Eee-yah-yah... woo-woo-woo-ha-haha..."
"Boom!"
Accompanied by chilling murmurs and the sound of something enormous hitting the ground, the vice-president who had just given the order was crushed into the ground by a giant tentacle.
"The building has stood up!!!"
A horrified scream, so loud it shattered, rang out from the surrounding civilians. Brother Delga looked up.
The building, which had just been reduced to ruins, suddenly seemed to come back to life.
Crimson flesh and blood covered the stone walls, and countless viscous blood plasmas slid out from the broken walls and windows of the building. Huge tentacles stretched out from under the building, and continued to grow and branch out as the flesh and blood grew and the blood plasmas splattered. In a short while, this magnificent building, more than three thousand meters high, turned into a giant tree of flesh and blood.
Countless tentacles spread across its body, blackish-red blood mingling with bloody sludge and splashing in all directions. The branches formed by these fleshy tentacles grew luxuriantly, constantly reaching out in all directions, engulfing surrounding high-rise buildings or even people on the ground. Then, countless tiny, capillary-like blood vessels extended from the points of contact with the human body, piercing into the skin, ears, mouth, eyes, nostrils, and even the entire body surface, and began to suck blood, tissue, flesh, and even fat.
In a short time, it absorbed the flesh and turned it into a dried-up corpse. Then the blood vessels and tissues dried up, and the tentacles that had been coiling around the human also dried up, turning into dried-up corpses. The leaves and ornaments hung on the huge tree trunk.
"Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!!"
A series of piercing screams erupted as a branch of the enormous tree stretched out, engulfing thousands of humans and beginning to feed on them.
Even knights wearing power armor could not resist its terrifying power. They were squeezed by the curling tentacles and burst into blood. Then, the capillary-like tissues probed into the gaps in the power armor and sucked them up.
"Demons of filth! I swear to defend Your Majesty's holiness to the death, and my soul shall return to the Pale Throne!"
To everyone's surprise, looking at the towering, fleshy tree, Brother Delga's spirit was even more frenzied and excited than before.
His eyes blazed with fury, and his entire body transformed into a streak of fire. Without any orders or commands, he spontaneously wielded his greatsword, activated the nuclear bomb on his back, and then resolutely leaped over the heads of the fleeing civilians, heading headlong towards the flesh-and-blood tree.
And this was just one building. In fact, after this fluctuation, everything from large buildings, roads, spaceships, and ships to small billboards, television sets, and even the brain-computer interfaces on people's heads and the clothes they wore, were rapidly coming to life, growing hideous flesh and blood, and transforming into all sorts of bizarre shapes, and began attacking living people.
This scene left the Human Federation Government and even the Pale Church stunned and terrified.
"This... this is what the Corpse Emperor meant by Soul Infestation?"
"Damn it, this must be it! How could it be so fast? Didn't the Corpse Emperor sacrifice himself to seal off reality and Heaven?"
"I understand, I understand! Reality and Heaven are separated. Jonah was swallowed by the Pale God, so after death, his soul can neither return to Heaven nor find refuge in the sun. Therefore, it wanders in reality and corrupts it!"
"And our spatial jumps are also constantly bringing the soul into reality!"
"Damn it, damn the Corpse Emperor! It's all his fault! Why did he seal off reality and Heaven?"
"You damned beast, don't you understand? Long before Your Majesty sealed reality and Heaven, signs of Soul Infestation reality had already appeared on that destroyed planet! If the Pale God hadn't sealed it, this scene would likely be unfolding on every planet in the universe, not just here! You damned heretic, you dare to insult corpses with every word... Pope, you scoundrel, today I sever all ties with you, we are sworn enemies!"
"You damned Human Federation, I have now returned to the orthodox tradition of the Pale Church! You are the heretics!"
The Human Federation Government was terrified, and countless people began preparing to flee.
They knew they couldn't escape the Pale Church, so they decided to give it a try.
But when faced with these ghostly things created by Soul Infestation reality, who knows if the screen in front of them will turn into a ghostly thing with tentacles at any moment!
Some even gained some insight, and were moved to tears on the spot, beginning to understand the true meaning of the grand sacrifices made by that Pale God in the past.
The top leadership of the Human Federation Government almost instantly collapsed into several major factions.
The collapse of the Human Federation's rear led to a sharp setback at the front. With no one issuing orders to command whether to attack or retreat, the knights and troops at the front began to come to a standstill.
Countless Human Federation knights and soldiers began to retreat spontaneously, wanting to leave this planet which had begun to be overrun with strange creatures.
In stark contrast to them was the reaction of the Pale Church followers.
The Pale Church, from its highest levels to its lowest knights, and from its ground Church to its space forces, is comprised of all members.
All the artillery fire and gunfire ceased instantly, and then, in a flash, they turned their attention to the Human Federation's army, treating it as nothing, and began a frenzied attack on the mutated flesh-and-blood creatures.
"The demons that defile souls must be cleansed by our holy purity!!!"
The true orthodoxy of the Pale Church, cleansing the soul of defilement, purifying the flesh and blood of impurity!!!
The ground Church knights, who had just been fighting with ease and maintaining a semblance of formation, suddenly went berserk, activating their bombs and unleashing raging flames as they charged madly at the surrounding mutated flesh and blood.
They ignored the gunfire from the Human Federation behind them and the fleeing civilians, facing death without fear and advancing relentlessly!