Chapter 280: When The Sun Falls
Ramdo, at the cost of a single projection, caused the coalition forces invading from the west to crumble and disintegrate in an instant. It would take them at least four or five days to regroup.
At the same time, he severely wounded several of the enemy's high-ranking figures; without a period of recuperation, it would be almost impossible for them to recover. Thus, the battle on the western front temporarily drew to a close.
Subsequently, the entire army of Maysuo, every unit that remained intact and capable of movement, received a strange order: abandon all current positions, and everyone was to rush to the capital at full speed, preparing to face the final enemy!
Issued directly by Ramdo, the Great Prophet, the God Walking Among Mortals, no one in the One-Wheel Cult dared to doubt his edict. Or rather, those who had harbored doubts had long since been purged.
"The Prophet's abilities truly defy all reason." Bai Mo, who had just been about to set off for Maysuo to execute the final step of his plan, immediately learned of the enemy's troop movements.
"Come, let's go greet their doomsday." Bai Mo, carrying Ning Yan Huo's head, slowly walked towards Maysuo.
"But why are we heading skyward?" Ning Yan Huo was utterly bewildered. While he knew the direction was correct, he couldn't comprehend why they were steadily ascending diagonally into the air.
"To bring down the judgment of the apocalypse upon them."
"Why do you sound even more like a charlatan than those other charlatans?"
Meanwhile, in the vast rural areas, the situation had completely deteriorated.
Half a day prior, ever since the first fanatic smashing apples everywhere was beaten by two young people who had finally reached their limit, faith in the villages and towns collapsed like an avalanche.
Stripped of its shell of Faith Power, Maysuo was in reality a backward nation where many areas still lingered in the Middle Ages, with the agricultural population remaining in the countryside accounting for over half of the national total.
It was only by relying on its uniquely abundant resources that this theocratic nation maintained its superficial grandeur and managed to construct a few modernized metropolises.
Ramdo, seated on his divine throne, constantly scanned for the possible direction of the enemy's appearance. He had already used his most recent divination to ascertain the time and location of the decisive battle beforehand.
"Only two hours left until the time revealed by divination, where exactly are they hiding?" He continuously pondered this question. "Could it be spatial movement?"
As the core of the entire nation, Maysuo had naturally installed an anti-teleportation defense system of their own design. Because teleportation ability users were impossible to guard against everywhere, every nation had installed specialized countermeasures in various important areas to prevent them.
It was precisely because of this layer of protection that the possibility of spatial movement merely flashed through his mind.
Two hours, one hour, half an hour, ten minutes, five minutes... When less than five minutes remained until the predicted time, the anomaly finally occurred!
It was already close to sunset, and the sky had been slowly turning dim and grey. But suddenly, as if time had reversed, the entire sky was once again illuminated by a brilliant light.
If one were to stand in Maysuo City, they would feel the sun before them growing brighter and brighter...
The cool evening air of the temperate continental climate was quickly replaced by warmth. Gradually, the subtle warmth transformed into the scorching sun of summer, then further intensified into the oppressive heat of a furnace.
"Damn it! They actually came from the sky. Do they really think I have no defenses?"
Although Ramdo's divine kingdom was hidden in a subspace directly above Maysuo, he naturally wouldn't risk his precious divine kingdom colliding with a super massive fireball descending from the sky.
"Sacred Canopy! Maximum Output!" The Faith Canopy, supported by countless Faith Power, naturally wasn't limited to merely countering curses; it also possessed powerful defensive capabilities against both physical and energy-based attacks.
However, facing this terrifying impact, like a meteor falling from the heavens, Ramdo didn't have too much confidence in this defensive system, built at the cost of countless human and material resources.
Large numbers of deployed missiles began launching towards the fireball, but unfortunately, they all vanished like clay oxen entering the sea. Ramdo couldn't use weapons with excessive destructive power either, as this location was too close to the capital.
If he were to manifest his divine kingdom and collide with the fireball, he could certainly intercept it; as the meticulously managed stronghold of his divine kingdom, he had absolute confidence.
However, Ramdo felt he had seen through the opponent's intentions; the massive fireball descending from the sky was meant to force his divine kingdom to reveal itself from the subspace. Therefore, he ultimately suppressed the impulse to intercept it.
"You guessed right, he still didn't want to manifest his divine kingdom. I wonder what expressions those fanatics would make if they knew their god behaved like this." Ning Yan Huo, along with Bai Mo, was in the middle of the plasma sphere, watching their violent descent.
He had never imagined that this madman beside him, who claimed to be "invincible under heaven," could pull off such a grand feat: dragging a plasma sphere with a radius of over a kilometer from an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, directly hurtling towards Maysuo's capital!
Such an inhuman maneuver had completely reshaped Ning Yan Huo's understanding of experts at a higher level than himself.
"So, it was *that* one who wanted to deal with me." Ramdo quickly recalled the incident a year ago, when a second sun appeared in South Africa.
However, after learning the enemy's identity, he did not show excessive worry. Relying on the support of his divine kingdom, he believed he still possessed the ability to contend with the opponent.
But to everyone's surprise, the plasma sphere did not continue to accelerate. Instead, it began to decelerate violently one minute before impact, and by the moment it touched the city's protective Faith Canopy, its speed had already dropped by several magnitudes.
Neither Ramdo, who was closely observing the situation from within his divine kingdom, nor Ning Yan Huo, who was right beside Bai Mo, could comprehend such an action.
In their view, to inflict maximum damage on the ground, it should have accelerated frantically; decelerating served no purpose other than reducing destructive power.
"Rip, tear..." Even facing the super plasma sphere that had already braked, the Faith Canopy, maintained by tens of thousands of people, still appeared overwhelmed the moment it made contact.
The residents of Maysuo City, as soon as they felt the fireball's heat become excessive, had already hidden themselves in their homes, drawing curtains, seeking refuge in bathtubs filled with water or in basements, begging to escape the high-temperature slaughter.
"Boom!" Under Bai Mo's precise calculations, the remaining kinetic energy of the Plasma Xuanhua Orb was just enough to perfectly carve a large hole through the Faith Canopy, allowing it to plummet into Maysuo City.
Even without the enormous kinetic energy capable of destroying an entire city, the plasma sphere's thousands of degrees of high temperature alone quickly incinerated everything in its surroundings into ash.
Maysuo was located in an area that was almost entirely sand. After the plasma sphere made impact, the surface sand was continuously melted, transforming into scorching molten glass. This molten liquid, like fiery magma, shaped the nearby area into a semblance of hell.
What terrified everyone in the city even more was that, not long after, terrifying entities of indeterminate form, their surfaces covered in plasma, began continuously emerging from the central fireball!
The moment the first monster let out a sky-shattering roar, the same sound echoed in the mind of every single person in Maysuo City:
"The Burning Legion, descends!".
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