Chapter 191: The Cosmic Siege
The sky above the Velkrath Capital did not just burn. It completely shattered.
Millions of citizens looked up in absolute horror. The dark night sky violently tore open across the entire horizon. Pouring out of the massive cosmic rift were endless swarms of blinding lesser angels. They descended like a terrifying plague of locusts.
Behind the winged infantry floated dozens of colossal marble warships adorned with glowing gold runes. The true Heavenly Pantheon had arrived to erase the industrialized city from existence.
Prime Minister Hardsteel stood on the highest balcony of the central parliament building. The veteran human statesman did not panic. He simply raised his heavy iron communication rune and crushed it.
"Engage the industrial defense grid!" Hardsteel roared.
The entire city violently rumbled. Nyssa's Age of Industry upgrade was not just for building dreadnoughts. It was a massive integrated planetary defense system.
The roofs of thousands of factories suddenly slid open. Massive automated Steampunk flak cannons elevated into the freezing night air.
The heavily pressurized steam engines roared with deafening power. The automated targeting systems locked onto the descending angelic swarm.
The entire capital opened fire simultaneously.
The deafening cacophony of thousands of Steampunk cannons shattered the silence. Millions of heavy iron shrapnel rounds tore through the sky.
The sheer kinetic velocity of the industrialized artillery completely shredded the glowing shields of the lesser angels. Golden blood and severed white wings rained down upon the cobblestone streets. The Forge was actively butchering the heavenly infantry.
But the flak cannons could not stop everything.
Thousands of surviving angels bypassed the flak barrage and dove directly toward the grand Iron Estate. They intended to slaughter the royal family.
Inside the royal chambers Ramona Kaelith Lysandra and Anise suddenly gasped in unison. The terrifying divine pressure of the invasion had triggered an absolute biological reaction inside their wombs.
The four unborn Sovereign heirs sensed the immediate threat to their mothers. They forcefully synchronized their developing cores with the Queens. A massive blinding surge of dark green conceptual magic erupted from the women's bodies.
DING!
[System Alert: Sovereign Lineage Defense Mechanism Activated.]
[Temporary Sovereign-Tier Buffs granted to all Royal Hosts.]
Ramona smiled a jagged ancient smile. Her flawless olive skin instantly hardened into indestructible cosmic dragon scales.
Kaelith the shadow elf assassin melted entirely into absolute void magic. Lysandra the succubus erupted in the infinite pure white Flame of Life.
Anise the former human hero drew her heavy broadsword as her physical stats temporarily skyrocketed past Level 150.
The four Queens stepped out onto the massive stone balcony of the Iron Estate.
Hundreds of shrieking angels dove toward them with glowing golden spears.
"You dare threaten our children?" Ramona hissed.
The Queens unleashed absolute hell. Ramona breathed a massive torrent of ancient draconic fire that instantly vaporized fifty angels.
Kaelith teleported through the dark shadows and severed celestial throats with terrifying invisible speed.
Lysandra and Anise fought back to back and completely butchered any angel foolish enough to land on the stone balcony. The pregnant Queens were untouchable.
Deep beneath the royal palace Nyssa was frantically working.
The Chief Architect stood in the blazing hot dimensional foundry. Her green geometric tattoos were flashing blindingly bright. She felt the heavy rhythmic pulse of her own unborn baby.
The child possessed the Mythic-Tier Sovereign Architect potential. Nyssa tapped directly into that limitless unborn genius.
She looked at the glowing blue holographic radars. She saw the colossal marble warships slowly descending toward the city. The Steampunk flak cannons were bouncing harmlessly off their massive divine shields.
"Standard artillery will not pierce celestial marble," Nyssa whispered frantically.
"I need more kinetic mass. I need absolute velocity."
She slammed her small hands onto the main control console. She activated her Reality Weaver trait and completely overrode the safety protocols of the entire dimensional factory.
The underground room violently shook. The massive hydraulic presses stopped minting dreadnought plates. They began rapidly assembling something entirely new.
Nyssa was converting the massive underground foundry into a colossal city-sized Void Steel Railgun.
Heavy stone panels in the center of the Velkrath plaza split wide open. A massive black iron barrel the size of a skyscraper slowly extended directly into the sky.
It aimed precisely at the largest marble warship hovering above the capital. It began humming with terrifying localized magnetic gravity. She was preparing to shoot the gods out of the sky.
Thousands of miles away in the Azure Sea the freezing glass ocean was completely silent.
I looked at the dark eastern horizon. My capital was under siege. My pack was fighting for their lives.
"Hold the ocean Vanguard!" I roared to Rolf.
I did not wait for the transport ships. I ignited the colossal draconic reactor inside my chest. The massive mechanical starmetal wings on my back flared with blinding pure energy.
I aimed my Level 200 Dragon-Mech helmet directly West. I fired the absolute maximum capacity of my atmospheric thrusters.
The sheer concussive force of my launch completely shattered the glass ocean for ten miles. I broke the sound barrier instantly.
The Absolute Kinetic Perception buff allowed me to perfectly navigate the chaotic wind resistance. I pushed my speed to Mach 10. Then Mach 20. Then Mach 50.
I literally became a burning dark green meteor racing across the dark sky. The atmospheric friction superheated my starmetal armor until it glowed like a dying star.
I crossed the massive distance in mere minutes.
I slammed into the airspace above the Velkrath Capital just as the central marble warship prepared to fire a massive holy orbital beam down upon the Iron Estate.
I did not slow down.
I aimed my burning starmetal body directly at the rear engines of the colossal divine warship. I raised my heavy brass fists and wrapped them entirely in the terrifying void of the Flame of Death.
"Get away from my city!" I roared.
I slammed directly into the massive marble warship with the kinetic force of a localized asteroid.