Chapter 197
Something is being dropped off the coast of Shanghai... What exactly is that something? It wouldn't be something meaningless, given the circumstances. It must be something incredibly threatening. What could it be...
"Perhaps it's something like the Rod of God."
This is a space weapon often seen in various creative works, where dropping a solid tungsten rod would result in a destructive force surpassing nuclear weapons and so forth. Of course, it's not realistic and quite ambiguous and inefficient to actually make, but listening to Go Minji, it seems she might have something of that sort.
"And there's also the 'Arrow of Jumong.'"
One shot from Jumong's arrow would end it, as Go Minji had put it.
Even if the Middle Twenty Kingdoms have become a honeypot for South Korea and the Koryo Group, a single nuclear strike wouldn't settle things. But Jumong's arrow supposedly does the job in one go.
"To drop something." "The Arrow of Jumong."
Combining these two naturally brings to mind the Rod of God.
But then again, what she's saying doesn't match up. It's described as stronger than nuclear, but compared to nuclear, the Rod of God would be like a tickle.
Just doing the math, even if you drop a 10-ton tungsten rod at a speed of 10 km/s, the destructive power would be about equivalent to 119 tons of TNT. But nuclear weapons start in the kilotons and go up to megatons.
That means the difference in destructive power is tens of thousands of times.
"Or am I misunderstanding something?"