Chapter 234: Chapter 185: Judgment Descends_1
Time ticked away.
Queen Airen stood on the high tform, her gaze on the fully armed elf guards below, silent. There was only one hour left for the countdown to the Tribunal; over these past days, the elves across Summer Ind had been engaged in tireless debate. Some were frightened by the horror of the Tribunal and suggested further discussions with them.
However, most of the elves vehemently refused. Elves were a proud race; the High Elves believed they were the inheritors of the gods and were entitled to rule over this continent. And now, mere humans had the audacity to utter outrageous words before them?
Never surrender!
The pride of the elves would not allow them to yield, they would rather stand here and be annihted along with the Summer Ind, rather than bow their haughty heads to humans!<div>
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They’d rather die standing than live kneeling!
They would show these humans that an elf’s pride and dignity could not be trampled upon!
No matter how powerful the opponent, they would show the humans the determination of the elves!
The situation had reached this point, and there was no turning back.
For Queen Airen, she had no other choice.
Soon, a beam of light descended from the sky,nding before the queen. Then, that massive figure appeared again. He paid no mind to the armed elves soldiers surrounding him, his gaze fixed on the elf queen.
“It seems that you have made your decision.”
“Yes.”
Queen Airen took a deep breath, forcefully nodded her head, her resolute gaze fixed on the man before her, and she shouted.<div>
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“The elves will never ept your humiliating conditions! If you want to destroy Summer Ind, we will use every ounce of our strength to defend the Ancestral God Province!”
Queen Airen’s voice was firm, without any hesitation, filled with the dignity and determination appropriate for a queen. Listening to her, the elves also raised their weapons, roaring loudly. For a moment, the whole Summer Ind echoed with the elves’ bellows, expressing their resolution and battle intent in this manner to the enemy before their eyes.
However…
“Oh.”
The other party did not say much, not caring about the performance of the elves or the queen’s answer. He just nodded and then disappeared again. Seeing this, Queen Airen clenched her fists and from the high tform, she issued an order.
“Activate the magic barrier! Everyone prepare for battle! We will never surrender! We will show our pride and glory as High Elves here!”
Let the Tribunal see the will of the elves’ sovereignty!!
For Duanmu Huai, the elves’ will, determination, and thoughts meant nothing.
In fact, after he returned to the Voice of Truth, he gave only one order.
“Three rounds from the Macro-cannon, one Light Spear, then all cannons fire together.”
That briefmand, given in less than five seconds, determined the fate of the elves.
The first to notice something amiss was an elf sentry.
He pulled his gaze from the distant sea level, only casually sweeping the sky above, then his eyes widened incredulously as he looked up at the night sky —— shining against the inky ckness were countless stars as usual. But soon, he realized something was off with the starry sky.
The originally serene starry sky seemed to be shaking, as if it was falling from the sky.
No, it was not the night sky that was falling, but the stars.
Hundreds of huge macro-cannon shells pierced the atmosphere, hurtling towards Summer Ind like a meteor shower, bringing a destructive glow while mercilessly plummeting under the eleration of gravity.
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In the blink of an eye, the sky above Summer Ind was covered with a dazzling, scorching, and intense light. The magic barrier, which the elves had thought so long over and put all their effort into, shattered like a fragile spider’s web in the face of the 140-meter-long, massive shells — not even able to withstand it for a second. Subsequently, the meteor shower from the sky covered the whole of Summer Ind.
mes surged into the sky, fire and air gushed everywhere. The entire ind looked like a chain of erupting volcanoes. Countless clouds of fire mushroomed into the sky, enveloping the whole ind. All resistance was meaningless in the face of this dire onught. The high towers, cities, and fortresses the elves had built crumbled like brittle structures, and the elves within were torn into pieces before they could scream.
The violent tremors caused the earth to undte like waves, even stirring up tremendous waves in the sea. Mountains were eroded, the elven forests were destroyed, and vineyards spanning across the ins were utterly ruined. The earth, forests, grasnds, cities, ports — nothing could survive this terrifying attack that was on the verge of annihtion.
Just as the elves believed that this terrifying attack wouldst forever, suddenly, everything ended without warning.
The surviving elves looked up in dumbfounded surprise. They saw destruction all around them. It was as if the world was plunged into deathly silence, so silent that they could not hear each other’s voices — it was as though all sounds had disappeared.
At that moment, the elves saw a radiance in the sky that rivaled the dazzling sunlight.
Several high-temperature energy beams descended from the sky, illuminating the entire Summer Ind. Unlike the previous violent attack, this time mes and heat swept across the ind, submerging the remaining cities, forests, and mountains in intense fire. The bright light was so brilliant that it even reflected off the horizon.
It was as if a burning sun was slowly rising from the sea.
“Your Majesty! Your Majesty!!!”
An elven guard screamed as they dashed forward. Their ss light armor hadpletely melted, fusing with the elf guard’s flesh. They shrieked in pain and reached out to their queen in despair. However, in the next moment, both the elf’s body and ss light armor werepletely melted into a pool of thick fluid, their bones sinking into the consuming mes.
“Your Majesty, please get out of here immediately!!”
The court mage held up both hands. Their fingers had turned ck, but even so, they grit their teeth, trying to maintain the protective barrier. Their clothes were on fire, and their hair had beenpletely burned off.
“It’s… toote.”
Queen Airen shook her head and looked up at the night sky, seemingly unable to bear the sight of the elven royal city which was fully engulfed in mes.
Even though Queen Airen had known it would be an unimaginable battle when she made her decision, she had not expected the disparity to be this vast… Was this possible for mere mortals? Shouldn’t this be the work of gods? But even gods probably could not aplish this.
Without any interaction, let alone hand-to-handbat, the entire Summer Ind was demolished merely upon confrontation.
Is this power… the power we are opposing?
With this thought, the queen opened her eyes, and thest thing she saw was a bright, dazzling light.
A sma flood roared downwards, heavily bombarding Summer Ind. Under this blow, the already devastated Summer Ind was directly shattered. Numerous cracks appeared in the earth, and the sea rushed in with raging roars. The shatterednd disintegrated, and the sea water surged in, evaporating on the scorching ground and pooling into clusters of white smoke that rose to the sky.@@novelbin@@
When all was over, the elves’ holynd — Summer Ind, the home of the High Elves, where the Royal City was located, hadpletely disintegrated and was inundated by the sea. The remnants sank to the seafloor under thest devastating blow. As for the tens of thousands of elven inhabitants, they unceremoniously stepped into death.
Their determination, their will, their dignity had been utterly obliterated without even a spark to mark their passing.
Duanmu Huai, with his hands sped behind his back, stood on the bridge of the ship. The elves’ resistance, struggle, and agony were meaningless to him. He could sense the souls of the elves writhing in pain, but this was not enough. The Tribunal’s wrath was not so easily quelled. The extermination of the aliens was not easy. Their souls would bepletely destroyed in the Tribunal’s Obliteration Domain by the Star Furnace and turned into energy, serving as the source of existence for the judges.
No matter how horrific the events on Summer Ind were, all Duanmu Huai saw was a fleeting spark.
But it was not over yet.
“Order the Night Guards to prepare. We are going topletely finish those aliens. From tonight, the Ancestral God Province will be utterly eradicated!”
For the inhabitants of this continent, this night was a heart-stopping one.
The fire on Summer Ind drew all eyes, but it wasn’t enough. In addition to Summer Ind, two other territories of the Ancestral God Province — Valen Forest and Aelsville — also came under attack. The Night Guards, d in ck armor, broke through the elves’ defense, ruthlessly ughtered the two territories’ main city armies, and hung the lords’ bodies on the city gates to announce theplete destruction of the Ancestral God Province.
With the demise of the High Elves’ army in these two territories and the death of the lords, the situation grew increasingly turbulent. In Valen Forest, the Wood Elves regained power due to the destruction of the Ancestral God Province and reestablished a federal government favorable to the Empire.
In Aelsville, the tiger people began to contest power again and established a new government.
In just one night, the Ancestral God Province, the sovereignty of the elves, was totally annihted. This night was known as the “Night of Destruction.” After this night, no race dared to question or confront the Tribunal. This unknown force, following the “Night of Destruction,” became the most horrifying entity on this continent.
What would happen to the continent afterwards, whether the Empire would seize this opportunity to defuse internal conflicts, was not of Duanmu Huai’s concern. As he had told the emperor, the Tribunal only cared about external threats to humans. As for the conflicts among humans, the Tribunal did not care, let alone mind. Even if another regime overthrew the Empire and established a new country, it would have…nothing to do with the Tribunal.
After this incident, except for hundreds of Night Guards left behind to manage the Tribunal’s influence on the continent, Duanmu Huai took the others back to Manaria.