Arknights' Lock of Heaven

How could it be man-made?

If any country possessed such weapons, wouldn't they immediately jump out and show off their power?

It's like developing a nuclear bomb on Earth, but instead of immediately making it a nuclear-armed nation, you keep it hidden.

Which countries are in that region now?

Ursus, a warmonger, would have declared war on the entire continent and been waging war long ago if he had such weapons. Those who know Ursus have no doubt about this.

Besides, they had no reason to use such weapons to attack their own people. Even if the emperor was at odds with the nobles who orchestrated this conspiracy, if he had such weapons, those nobles would have been annihilated long ago. Why would they have to swallow their anger like this?

It is precisely because most of the army is controlled by nobles that the Ursus emperor's decrees are obstructed everywhere.

If such weapons existed, what army could survive such an attack?

Yan Kingdom?

That doesn't seem right. Even if someone is a peace lover, they wouldn't keep such a weapon a secret. They wouldn't use such a trump card on a core city, would they?

We can use this strategy until Ursus declares war, then take it out. After destroying a few mobile city-states, acquiring territory with over a dozen shipping routes from Ursus shouldn't be a problem.

This is how someone in a position of power thinks: when there's profit to be made, who would stop at the right time?

It's even less likely in other countries. Even if you really want to hide it, there's no need to use it here.

What benefits would other countries gain from stopping the war between Ursus and Yan?

Even the Eastern Kingdom, which considers Yan Kingdom its suzerain state, would probably welcome this war.

No matter who fights Ursus, they will cheer them on.

Well, it's limited to just cheering and shouting.

No matter how you look at it, this doesn't seem like a weapon held by any country, because it doesn't make any logical sense.

As for Rhodes Island?

Well, on this chessboard that determines the fate of the entire continent, Rhodes Island is not yet worthy of the attention of those in power.

Besides, if Rhodes Island had such weapons, Theresa would have unified Kazdel long ago, and who would dare disobey her?

Don't tell me you only took it out after the person was dead.

Just discovered?

As the remnant of the Tower of Babel and the legitimate successor of Queen Theresa, Rhodes Island, with such a weapon, why not go to Kazdel to inherit the unfinished great cause of the Queen, instead of running around between Ursus and Yan Kingdom?

Nobody really takes Rhodes Island's philosophy seriously.

Slogans are just empty words; who will actually put them into practice? Isn't that how everyone does it?

Therefore, in the end, we can only arrive at a conclusion that is not a conclusion at all.

Ursus is just incredibly unlucky; bad luck just keeps piling up.

Even though the meteorite did not directly hit the core city, the damage to the shipping lanes was enough to bring the core city to a standstill once again.

As for that strange meteorite... the reason it didn't split might be because it holds some secret, or it might even be a whole piece of D32 steel that fell down.

After all, strange things have fallen from the sky before.

So these busy secret agents received a mission almost simultaneously.

Collect the fragments of this meteorite.

Yeah, that's just wishful thinking.

After all, this is not a real meteorite.

But one can also foresee the bloodshed that is about to unfold here.

Xia Yu nodded in satisfaction as she watched the Noble Phantasm, under her control, precisely destroy the corner of the core city where the Third Army was hidden.

In fact, in order not to destroy everyone in the core city, Xia Yu deliberately reduced the power of her Noble Phantasm. Moreover, due to the concept of Venus, although this world can help her transform, the power will always be reduced.

However, Xia Yu had calculated all of this; a smaller power would save money!

Although the harvest in Chernobyl was a great success, every little bit used is precious, so it's best to be careful with our spending.

Even under such circumstances, the reason why the core city could just be rendered useless instead of becoming ruins is because Xia Yu didn't unleash her entire Noble Phantasm on it.

Most of the power struck the ground, which was now solidified by the weight of countless mobile cities.

The melted corner of the core city was merely grazed by a Noble Phantasm.

Yes, there are basically no living people left there.

If this is Koschke's plan to deal with himself, then the gods of this world are far too weak.

The moment the mushroom cloud rose, the organization of the Ursus Third Army could be declared to have collapsed.

All the elites have vaporized here. What fighting power do the rest—those who are just drawing salaries without working, those who are just here to gain experience, and the old, weak, sick, and disabled—have left?

The Emperor of Ursus is probably laughing himself to death on his throne.

Because the Third Army is a force controlled by the great nobles, although it is nominally the Third Army of Ursus, it cannot be mobilized without the approval of those great nobles.

This is a complete disaster; they lost both their wife and their army.

Xia Yu looked at the central tower of the core city and smiled slightly.

How will Kosic respond to this small gift he has given us?

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What else can Kosic offer?

He had nothing to offer.

Wearing Talulah's skin, he sat blankly on the ground, looking down at the devastated streets after the mushroom cloud dissipated.

They had elite soldiers they had brought in to suppress the Reunification Movement, and they had stockpiled enough weapons and ammunition to power an entire army group.

Over there lies his unfulfilled ambition: he wants to provoke a war, he wants to avenge the defeat at Lungmen years ago, and he wants to make Ursus great again in his own way!

Unfortunately, with a deafening roar, the ambition that had swept through countless people vanished like a mushroom cloud dissipating in the sky, turning into a mere illusion.

At this moment, he could even somewhat understand the sentiment of "mono no aware" (the pathos of things) that the people of the East cherished.

Decades of hard work have vanished into thin air...

As a non-human being, he naturally knew that it was no ordinary meteorite.

He knew when that pure energy aggregate condensed, compressed, and erupted in ways he couldn't comprehend.

This was a premeditated attack!

But even if you knew, what good would it do?

How many other non-human beings in this world, like myself, retain such great power?

Who is that person? Is he on the side of Yan?

But how could those few fragments I knew of possess such power? Or was it created by someone else? How could the Emperor of Yan allow such power to exist within the country?

Or is it that even the Emperor of Yan is His puppet? Has everything over the past thousand years been an illusion?

The pitiful Koschl, an evil god who has reigned for millennia, holds the fate of countless people in his hands, yet he cannot see clearly who his true enemy is.

He seemed never to have considered that he was the one who had bound himself in the square.

Because of his divine nature, he knew immediately upon contact that it was merely a weapon.

The weapons created by God may seem to have awakened self-awareness, but so what?

The extra troops and equipment he prepared were intended for capturing that weapon.

Kosiché was very interested in the weapon that could bind the gods.

Just as Xia Yu realized during that brief encounter that Koschei was in the process of reincarnation and therefore his strength was weakened, Koschei also realized his true nature.

Xia Yu uses the weakened Koschländer as her starting point in facing this world, to measure the strength of the gods.

Kosiché never took him seriously, believing he was well-prepared to handle the situation.

Little did they know that there are differences between gods, and there are also differences between the god-made weapons of Type-Moon and those of Terra.

He's still stuck in the same place, pondering who thwarted his plot, instead of looking at the ground beneath his feet that he's been ignoring.

It has to be said, fate is truly wondrous.

72 Patriots

“The Doctor’s abilities are a secret of Rhodes Island,” Kal’tsit instructed the operators around her. “I don’t want word about the Doctor’s situation to get out.”

Seeing the determined looks in the eyes of the operators around her, Kal'tsit sighed.

Despite having imagined it countless times, I found myself underestimating it when the time came.

From the moment that so-called meteorite fell, this place will become the center of all the world's secret agents.

Aside from some superhuman beings, no one should be able to tell that this is not a natural disaster, but a man-made one.

Under no circumstances should Rhodes Island be allowed to know about the meteorite impact beforehand.

In that case, countless spies would flood into Rhodes Island.