Countless people were fighting on the battlefield.
In the midst of battle, they suddenly looked down at their feet.
'A shadow?'
As a result of reclaiming the world’s influence through their power.
This land had returned under the influence of the daytime sunlight.
And yet, a shadow had suddenly fallen over their heads.
The gray angels in the sky had appeared while spreading clouds, so it could not have been a shadow caused by the clouds.
Many people turned their gazes toward the sky.
RUMMMMMMBLE.......
There, they witnessed a gigantic fortress floating in the air.
A medieval citadel protected by tall, expansive walls.
But strange protrusion-like objects were jutting out from those walls.
[Artificial Spirit Bimanar is commencing operations in response to the lord of the fortress’s command.]
Those with high stats or skills related to vision could see the true nature of those protrusions.
A beautiful citadel that seemed as though it could only be depicted in the Age of Myth.
[This fortress has been determined to be positioned in the middle of a large-scale battlefield.]
Things far too unfitting to be attached to such a citadel.
[Under Bimana’s autonomous judgment, commencing war operations.]
Absurdly enormous weapons.
“Bimana!”
“Legion Headquarters is here!”
It sounded somewhat strange, but those words were literally true.
The moment the safety of the sky was secured.
The Legion’s headquarters...... Bimana, which had been landed by the riverside in Chuncheon, began to take off.
Among the enemies were many who specialized in aerial combat.
Even they would not be able to break through Bimana’s walls, but they might have been able to strip away the Legion’s equipment installed on Bimana or infiltrate the interior from above.
That was why it waited until the powerful enemies in the sky had been eliminated, and only began moving after safety had been secured.
The power of the fortress that entered battle in this manner was more than enough to overwhelm the battlefield.
The Legion’s firepower was certainly powerful.
But when powerful firepower was unleashed, the one responsible for firing it {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} had to endure the resulting recoil.
No matter how powerful a spell the mages fired, the one casting it still possessed a human body.
The Legion’s tanks were better in that regard and could unleash even greater firepower, but even they had clear limits.
But...... not this fortress.
[Mobile Fortress Bimana Lv.9]
[Outer Wall Lv.12]
[Durability = 17000000/17000000]
The walls had been strengthened to a degree incomparable to when the fortress was first summoned.
Those solid walls could withstand even the highest-powered projectiles developed by the engineers without difficulty.
Even the firm ground used to install fixed artillery emplacements was not as stable as the walls of this fortress.
[Fixed Cannon Containing the Souls of the Legion Engineers and the Dreams of Men]
[1,000-Millimeter Super-Dreadnought Fixed Artillery Battery Containing the Dreams of the Legion’s Master Craftsmen]
In the past.
When a report came in that Sergeant Shin Youngjun, who had set out for Seoul, had suddenly become stranded in China.
The Legion moved to unify South Korea as quickly as possible.
After completing the Conquest War and weakening the power of the barrier, they would mobilize Bimana and infiltrate the Chinese mainland.
An operation to rescue their Legion Commander.
Because it was an operation conducted in anticipation of an ultra-large-scale battle.
It was suggested that the combat equipment of Bimana, the mobile fortress, also needed to be extensively improved.
The engineers therefore pushed their stats to the limit and created firepower capable of annihilating any enemy.
“We stayed up for weeks designing them, but Bimana never got a chance to fight, so we couldn’t use the embodiment of our dreams.......”
“Our dreams.......”
Contrary to expectations, however, the Conquest War dragged on.
And Sergeant Shin Youngjun, whom the Legion had intended to rescue by exerting every last ounce of its strength, defeated the vampire grand duke in China on his own and returned through his own power.
They had begun developing the artillery batteries with tremendous enthusiasm.
But those batteries had not even been completed by the time Sergeant Shin Youngjun returned.
Having lost their purpose, the batteries were destined to be scrapped as they were.
“Finally, their first real deployment!”
The moment an all-out war against the enemy in the north became inevitable.
The project that had nearly been scrapped was resumed.
As a result of accelerating development, it was finally completed only recently.
Eighty meters long, ten meters wide, and fifteen meters tall.
In the past.
They resembled the enormous artillery batteries that might only have been seen during the world wars, when nations pursued firepower to its absolute limit......
No, they surpassed even those, reaching the pinnacle of inefficiency.
The shells had a caliber of 1,000 millimeters...... in other words, one meter.
They were high-explosive shells developed by Legion members who possessed technological capabilities incomparable to those of the world-war era.
The power contained within them had reached a level that could not be explained even by the enormous caliber of the shells.
There was even.
[Steel Engineer Lee Gongwoo’s Masterpiece Crafted with Utmost Devotion, 1,500-Millimeter Semi-Automatic Rapid-Fire Cannon]
“Yes, yes....... You must be happy that you finally get to fulfill your role too, Giant David.”
“Squad Leader.......”
Among them.
There was even an artillery battery designed to fire even larger high-explosive shells in semi-automatic succession.
BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM—!
A miracle created by the Legion members’ obsession with firepower.
Building-sized weapons unleashed the firepower of destruction.
A barrage equal in power to strategic nuclear weapons, lacking only the radiation, blanketed the enemy lines.
[Allied forces detected on the battlefield.]
[Under Bimana’s autonomous judgment, commencing support for the Legion.]
FWAAAAASH.......
Blue light poured out from the fortress.
Several awakened who were bathed in that light opened their eyes wide and smiled.
“The mana of the Underground Mine.......”
An [Underground Mine] existed beneath Bimana.
Because controlling its infinite mana was impossible, only the mana stored in the [Mana Storage Furnace] could be used.
[Mana Storage Furnace Lv.14]
As a result of the fortress’s continuous development.
The amount stored within was not truly infinite, but it had become close enough to infinity to seem endless.
CRAAAASH!!!
The moment Bimana’s mana support was provided.
The mages released the restrictions on the mana they had been conserving and began firing their power like mad.
[Divine Punishment]
The lightning of Sergeant Lee Minjae, who had been fighting somewhere on the battlefield, tore through the golden domain and split the center of the enemy lines apart.
They began extravagantly firing attacks with power that would normally require dozens of squad-leader-class mages gathered together just to unleash a single shot.
And in the spaces where the enemies disappeared like that.
THUD, THUD!!!
Black figures that had leaped down from the fortress took their positions.
[Dragon Fang Soldiers]
[Currently strengthened by Bimana’s mana.]
Gigantic soldiers that resembled moving fortresses.
They began advancing while cutting down their enemies.
“Run!”
“Follow behind the Dragon Fang Soldiers!”
The firepower of Bimana and the mages blanketed the battlefield.
While slaughtering the surviving enemies, the Dragon Fang Soldiers, like gigantic walls, took the territory of North Korea one step at a time.
“......What tremendous speed.”
The fortress that had descended into the sky advanced while quite literally ‘grinding’ the enemies apart.
Mirinae, who was following the movement of the troops from the rear of the battlefield, spoke with a somewhat surprised expression.
That was only natural.
“To think the destination is already before our eyes.”
With Bimana’s support added.
Our army had reached a point where our destination...... Pyongyang, was visible before us in an instant.
“The fact that they eliminated the zombies themselves was significant.”
Had that golden energy not taken care of those zombies.
We would have had to expend a great deal of strength eliminating the zombies gathered in front of the barrier.
We would likely have been forced to waste Bimana’s precious operating time eliminating those zombies.
“Of course.......”
And on top of that.
“Had it not been for Mirinae and your disciples, this speed would have been impossible even after the zombies were eliminated.”
“Well, I will not deny that.”
Only a few days.
That was how long Mirinae and the disciples had instructed the Legion’s disciples.
But in just those few days, Mirinae’s teachings had brought about an unbelievable improvement in the martial arts of the Legion members.
Had the Legion’s strength not been enhanced in that manner, we would probably still have been continuing a difficult battle somewhere around the midpoint between Pyongyang and Gangwon Province.
“But you know as well.”
Even though we had reached our destination at such incredible speed.
Mirinae shrugged and spoke.
“Even this speed may prove slow. We must not lower our guard and must hurry as much as possible.”
“Yes, I understand.”
In the end, this battle was a battle against time.
The reason was simple.
Because the being that had descended over there had achieved transcendence.
“If its body remains at a level incapable of enduring its soul, there is still a possibility that we can somehow defeat it. But...... the moment that body becomes capable of enduring the soul, the situation will change.”
The demon that had descended through the prince’s body was forcibly evolving that body.
I had already experienced a battle against that grand duke.
I knew what would happen when that evolution reached the point the bastard sought.
'The difference between one who has reached transcendence and one who stands immediately before it is vast.'
Mirinae’s eldest disciple.
Cheonho had also been an incredible powerhouse standing on the verge of ascension.
'Even so, compared to the ‘outer beings’ I encountered, he was far too lacking.'
One who had arrived and one who was only slightly short of arriving.
Between them remained the decisive difference of whether they had ultimately crossed the finish line or failed to do so.
And the gap created by that difference was absolute.
“That golden energy was anything but ordinary. It is probably a renowned immortal even among the immortals of the outer universe. It may even be a being worthy of being called a Great All-Encompassing Immortal.”
If the level of the body could not withstand transcendence, then even a Great All-Encompassing Immortal would inevitably be confined by the limits of that body.
But the moment that body completed sufficient evolution.
It would freely display its original power, which could not be compared to that of an ordinary immortal.
We could not lower our guard simply because the current state of the battle was favorable.
Even now, we had to hurry as much as possible.
The one fortunate point was.
'If it had already reached that level, this battle would have become meaningless.'
If the evolution of the body had already progressed far enough.
The other side would have descended first to wipe us out.
Even the barrier the Legion had created with all its strength would have collapsed helplessly before it.
Conversely.
'The fact that they have not done so means that, at least for now, they have not yet reached that level.'
It was no different from saying that we still had a chance of victory.
No, to be precise.
“I will be counting on you inside.”
“I will try.”
Mirinae and the disciples.
It meant that they still had a chance of victory.
'Even the Legion will have difficulty handling a being like that.'
The same was true even if it remained trapped within the limits of its body.
Only an extremely small number of individuals within the Legion.
The squad-leader-class soldiers, Ariella, and I would barely be capable of participating in that battle.
That was precisely why Mirinae was remaining in the rear instead of participating in the current battlefield.
Mirinae’s current physical abilities were below those of an ordinary awakened.
But the martial arts Mirinae possessed had undoubtedly reached transcendence.
'Preserve Mirinae’s stamina as much as possible, then allow Mirinae to fight alongside the disciples.'
The Legion members and I would support their battle as much as possible together with Bimana.
We had also prepared as many support measures as possible for that purpose.
And soon.
“Enemy defensive line destroyed!”
“The entrance into the city has been opened!”
Advancing with unstoppable momentum, the Legion soon reached the immediate outskirts of Pyongyang.
Their momentum was tremendous.
The morale of the Legion members was quite literally high enough to pierce the heavens.
'The Legion has never possessed strength on this level before.'
The forces of the captain of the royal guard and the Green Mane tribe.
The power of martial arts and even the fortress.
Never once in the Legion’s history had such an enormous force been mobilized.
'No matter who the enemy is, we can win!'
Even if every enemy the Legion had exterminated until now returned to life and attacked together.
This was a force powerful enough to sweep them all away in an instant.
The morale of the troops determined the combat power of an army.
The Legion’s combat power, having completely seized the momentum, had undoubtedly reached its absolute peak.
[Base of hostile forces confirmed.]
[The estimated location of the target designated for annihilation has entered the fortress’s firing range.]
Bimana’s artillery batteries aimed at Pyongyang.
The boots of the Legion members were raised over that land.
And then.
BOOM.......
[Commencing bombardment of twelve estimated locations of the target.]
The artillery batteries opened fire.
Tap.
The moment the first Legion member’s footstep.
Touched the city.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM———!!!
A gigantic impact swept across the battlefield.
“......Huh?”
Upon seeing it, I could only open my mouth blankly.
That was because.
What appeared before my eyes was not the sight of that city being swept away by overwhelming firepower.......
[Mobile Fortress Bimana Lv.9]
[Outer Wall Lv.12]
[Durability = 14761/17000000]
Bimana’s outer wall.
Was crumpling like clay.
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