Duke Storm, who was standing in the dark room, and all the elite troops on the Storm disappeared and arrived in the central royal city.
On the battlefield, only ruins remained: a desperate slave army, a dilapidated airship, and the woman in the dark room.
The woman laughed and said, "You've been planning this for so many years, but you haven't figured out how it will end."
The next second, a powerful shockwave destroyed the armor of the decommissioned air fortress, and light more than ten times the intensity of sunlight pierced through, but the woman was still smiling.
The eternal spear from the heavens has fallen.
When the missile crashed to the ground, accompanied by a loud bang, the ground within a 500-meter radius of the impact point suddenly trembled and then began to collapse.
Immediately afterwards, a burst of light shot into the sky, and red flames slowly rose into the air, enveloped in a black mushroom cloud.
Then, a ring of transparent shockwaves, tens of meters high, spread and rolled outwards like a tsunami.
Trees, buildings, and humans all vanished into thin air, along with the Storm and Blackwater ships, which crashed and perished.
This is the pinnacle of human weaponry, something no one wants to see.
It caused the destruction of the first era of humankind, a historical wound that many people rarely mention.
Now, it has reappeared, and once again it is accompanied by destruction.
However... the giant did not die along with it. Just as the missile was about to hit, someone in the Forbidden Forest also broke a key door.
In the forest, a group of giants were piled up on top of each other, as tall as a small mountain.
The giants roared and struggled to their feet, stepping on their companions' bodies to jump down from the "hill".
"Whoa!"
(Don't step on my head, I'm still trapped underground!)
Hehehe!
(I'm so sorry, so sorry, so sorry!)
King of Giants: "Illusion!"
(Stop criticizing me!)
The giants frantically untied the blows, then scratched their heads and looked at the Prophet, Qing Ji, Hu Xiaoniu, Chen Zhuoqu, and others in the center of the crowd, as well as the broken door frame.
Qing Ji arrived at the Forbidden Forest at full speed early in the morning. Qing Chen had told him that this matter was very important, so much so that he hadn't even slept before rushing to see the giant prophet.
Then the Shadow Gate was opened, and the others were brought over.
The King of Giants said in a human language, "This magic is so amazing! We were just fighting, and in the blink of an eye, we're all here!"
Giants: "Wow!"
The prophet explained: "Silence."
(I had already foreseen the future. The place where you fought has been destroyed by a terrible bomb. If it weren't for that friend's plan, the Giant Dynasty would probably have suffered annihilation. Now, there is no life left within a 310-kilometer radius there.)
Giants: "Wow!"
Chapter 867, The Empire's Devastating News
King Roosevelt's plan was extremely ruthless.
Even throughout human history, few emperors have devised such a massive and lengthy plan.
Given the Virtuoso's lifespan of sixty years, he was essentially spanning his entire life, aiming to complete this war in the last year of his life.
The king looked at Duke Storm, who, unusually, showed signs of fatigue. He said with a sigh, "This is an opportunity given to me by fate. If someone hadn't framed you beforehand, I might not have lived to see this day."
The original plan was for the Duke of Storms to put on an act for a while, so that evidence of his treason would naturally be discovered, and then the King would gradually stir up conflict, ultimately forcing the Duke of Storms to rebel.
That way, it will seem more real, and the giants will believe him.
Now, the friend from the giant's prophecy has directly framed him, and the Storm Duke has naturally played along, bringing everything forward.
That's why everything seemed so rushed.
The king was very pleased.
He endured for nearly forty years, sacrificing the lives of 110,000 slave soldiers and two decommissioned aerial fortresses, all for the sake of completely ruling the Forbidden Forest in his generation and completing the evolution of humanity.
It seems he had planned everything from the moment he violated the giantess, and this war had only two objectives:
First, we must end the threat posed by the dynasty of giants.
Secondly, they must capture the female giant in the Forbidden Forest, forcibly prolong the Roosevelt family's life, and usher in the era of the new human.
If they were allowed to keep the Giantess and force her to reproduce, it would mean that even if the whole world became a forbidden forest, the Roosevelt family could still continue to exist.
At that time, King Roosevelt will surely be remembered for all time, and like the first King Roosevelt, he will surely be a restorer of the dynasty.
In the palace of the central capital, King Roosevelt looked at the soldiers before him and said calmly, "You are all heroes in this battle, and the kingdom will not forget you."
The soldiers who followed Duke Storm were filled with excitement.
The king sat down at his desk and began signing documents.
The first is to recognize the Duke of Storms' legitimate status as a member of the royal family.
The second is to reward the soldiers who followed Duke Storm.
He did not reward Duke Storm.
Because the king wanted to give his courageous and wise son a chair.
The person sitting in this chair only needs to praise others; they no longer need others to praise them.
However, during this time of family joy, an officer suddenly came running up and shouted, "We just slowed down the satellite surveillance frame by frame and found that all the giants disappeared before the Spear of Eternity fell."
The smile on King Roosevelt's face slowly disappeared: "Say it again."
The smile on Duke Storm's face slowly faded.
The officer repeated, "The giant is not dead."
He quickly turned on the video, and everyone could clearly see that as the Spear of Eternity was about to fall, the giants indeed disappeared from sight.
Satellite surveillance is high-definition; that cannot be faked.
Everyone was stunned...
Someone exclaimed, "What happened?"
King and Duke Storm were the first to react: "The Key Gate!"
"It's the key gate!"
As the saying goes, success and failure both depend on the key to success.
They used the Key Gate to escape the battlefield, and the enemy used the exact same method!
King growled, "Joker..."
It's worth noting that King learned this move from Qing Chen. If Qing Chen hadn't pulled off some incredibly disgusting stunts in the Northern God Era's territory, he wouldn't have been able to learn it!
Trying to use the Key Gate in front of Qing Chen was like showing off one's limited skills before an expert.
The king spent his entire life, two aerial fortresses, and hundreds of airships in exchange for a single door frame from the Joker!
The price is too high!
Duke Storm's face was grim. He had just received his reward, but now he learned that the plan had failed.
This missile, once launched, killed countless beasts of the Forbidden Forest.
But what good was that? The Forbidden Forest occupied most of the western continent, and the beasts they saw were just a drop in the ocean.
The giants only brought these wild beasts because their population was small and they could only control so many wild beasts.
If the giants were to produce a few demigods, all of whom possessed beast-taming talents, then the Roosevelt Kingdom would be doomed. The rats in the Forbidden Forest alone would be enough to destroy a kingdom.
So the damage they're inflicting on the giants now is making them choke on their own laughter as they look up at the sky.
Everyone used the Key Gate, but the Giants Dynasty suffered no losses, while his king's life's plan was ruined.
The king has lived in vain!
At this moment, someone suddenly exclaimed, "Your Majesty!"
Duke Storm turned his head and was shocked to see his biological father swaying precariously.
Fortunately, the king was, after all, a demigod and a man who had seen many storms, and he gradually regained his footing.
The king looked at the Duke of Storms: "You..."
Duke Storm knelt on one knee: "It is my incompetence."
The king shook his head: "We are both strong-willed people, so there's no need to blame others. This is not our fault. The war we planned with our whole lives was so cleverly avoided; you couldn't have imagined it, and neither could I."
The king, surprisingly, remained calm, displaying remarkable composure. Since the deed was already done, there was no point in dwelling on it.
Do we really need to find someone to take the blame for this? Absolutely not.
What they need now is to unite all forces to resolve this issue.
The king said softly, "This Joker must die. Do everything you can to kill him. I have seen the future, but it is not unchangeable. All we need to do is kill him, and it will all be over."
Joker.
This is a name that the Roosevelt Kingdom cannot bypass.
Duke Storm recalled the prophecy spoken by the first prophet and suddenly felt a chill run through him.
Is this fate?
No, the kingdom still possesses an unimaginably powerful foundation, which the Giant Dynasty and the Eastern Continent cannot match.
Duke Storm believed that this prophecy could certainly be rewritten, just like the prophecies rewritten by powerful Fates throughout history.
The king convened a meeting; he was about to change his strategy… If the giants of the western continent were no longer able to handle the situation, then they would have no choice but to leave the western continent and transfer the disaster to the eastern continent.
The empire is about to embark on a new expedition.
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