Light Fortress Chapter 1945 - 21: Shattered Throat (Part 2)

But now, this ring had become the most precious thing on Zou Hai’s entire body.

The North Continent was currently in a cut-off period where all information from the Deep Sea had been blocked.

This ring could ensure that his spiritual messages, no matter the distance, would be delivered to Lord Lin Lin at the first possible moment.

The flames of war had already been lit.

Lord Lin Lin had been stationed at Gu Castle for nearly twenty years; as Lin Lin’s adjutant, Zou Hai had always hoped Lin Lin could return to Central City.

Lin Lin was the soul of the Gu Castle Fortress.

But by comparison, the North Continent now needed my lord’s aid even more.

This time when Lin Lin returned to Central City, Zou Hai felt a trace of regret, but even more of relief.

As the orthodox heir of the Royal Family.

Lord Lin Lin at this moment should indeed be presiding over the center.

"Woo-ow!"

The labrador evil dog let out a low growl; this time Lin Lin had left in great haste, the luggage at the Gu Castle Fortress hadn’t even been packed, he took nothing with him, and just left like that.

Zou Hai had thought the Labrador was complaining to him about its master’s "leaving without saying goodbye."

But the next instant, the voice that sounded in the Spiritual Illusion made his expression grow solemn.

"The giant wall! In the direction of the giant wall!"

Niuniu had long since "awakened"; it used spiritual power to transmit its meaning!

At this moment the large Labrador, its four limbs braced against the ground, fur standing on end, was as if facing a mortal enemy, staring fixedly toward the direction of the giant wall!

"?"

Zou Hai froze for a second; because of the declaration of war against the Deep Sea, the Gu Castle Fortress had already switched to a closed Spirit Network. Not only Gu Castle alone—this was true of the entire Frontier defensive line of the Northern Continent Border. Switching to a closed Spirit Network could completely cut off information surveillance from the Deep Sea.

But the corresponding flaw was that the defensive strength of the "umbrella defense line" had dropped by several levels.

Even though the Northern Continent Border had dispatched a large number of Transcendents to conduct "manual" monitoring, the patrol precision of Transcendents could not compare to that of the Deep Sea.

"The direction of the giant wall..."

An ominous sign surfaced in Zou Hai’s heart. He released the electronic chain; the labrador evil dog instantly turned into a phantom shadow, planting its paws on the giant wall and climbing straight up.

Boom!

The Source Armor Tail Wing spouted flames, and Zou Hai lifted off from the flat ground.

A few seconds later, man and dog arrived at the giant wall at the same time.

"Woo-ow! Woo-ow!"

Niuniu howled madly toward the umbrella defense line outside the giant wall!

Zou Hai tried to call those "Patrol Sentinels" sent out from the Gu Castle Fortress, but the communicator had completely failed at this moment. No matter how he called, there was only the crackling sound of broken current!

Rumble——

A dull thunderous roar shook from beyond the giant wall.

The long night had not yet ended, dawn was about to break; atop the dim Skytop of the Gu Castle Fortress, a smear of ghastly white suddenly emerged.

That was not the dawn that symbolized light and a new sun...

On the contrary.

That smear of ghastly white carried a despairing wind pressure, sweeping in like a blizzard. The umbrella defense line which had held the Gu Castle Fortress firmly for decades was, in this moment, as fragile as a sheet of thin paper.

Zou Hai understood why the communicator had no response.

The Transcendents dispatched to patrol beyond the walls had already perished.

They hadn’t even had time to send back a single shout before they were engulfed by that snow-white storm saturated with vast quantities of source material.

In such circumstances... being engulfed was equivalent to being annihilated.

"All personnel! On alert! On alert!"

This originally silent long night was suddenly torn apart by the Storm.

The airships of the Gu Castle Fortress all activated in unison, entering combat readiness; all elite forces synchronized into the closed Spirit Network, and then personally witnessed the umbrella defense line being torn open... It had taken humanity a full five years to build this line of defense, with enormous effort invested each year in its repair, yet in the face of the Source Material Storm, it resisted for only five seconds.

The world-ending storm advanced, crushing and sweeping away everything in its path.

The Source Energy Boats suspended above the Gu Castle Fortress fell into utter silence in that instant.

Boom!

The snow-white torrent slammed into them, brilliant radiance coursed like a waterfall, spreading out over nearly a hundred miles...

At that moment, there were only two words in everyone’s heart.

Despair.

...

...

Central City, candlelight flickered in the attic.

Lin Lin leaned against the wall of the dim study, watching his elder brother writing furiously at the desk opposite. Outside the window, the sky was already beginning to grow faintly pale... It was a sleepless night.

"In nineteen minutes, the Heavenly Sheath Strike plan will be executed."

Lin Chou gripped the quill, took a deep breath, and lifted his eyes to the clock on the wall.

This was already who knows the how-many-th time he’d looked up tonight.

He seemed fully focused, but in truth his Heart Lake had never been so chaotic; he could only vent and steady himself by randomly writing things.

The Heavenly Sheath Strike plan was the most critical "plan" of this war!

If it could be successfully executed, the ensuing war would encounter no major resistance...

Even if, when the plan was carried out, things did not go as smoothly as expected, the one hundred and three Sky Shield Missiles stored on the Tundra, plus that "Meat Mountain" at Gu Castle, making a total of one hundred and four Sky Shield Missiles— even if only half of them detonated, it would be enough to secure victory.

Tonight’s plan concerned the survival of billions of living beings!

How could he be calm? How could he enter a meditative state?

As for Lin Lin, there was even less to be said. This night he had come specially to his brother’s attic, precisely so they could face it together...

Tonight had gone very smoothly.

Through an emergency-linked private network, messages about Heavenly Sheath Weapons being loaded and prepared kept coming from the Tundra.

Everything was fine.

And even better than expected.

Yet the more "calm" things were, the more "smoothly" they seemed to proceed, the more unease Lin Lin felt.

Tick.

Tick.

Tick.

The attic was silent; in the brothers’ gaze, the steadily running clock seemed to pause for a second.

Buzz!

The ring Lin Lin wore on his little finger suddenly vibrated once... A flood of spiritual messages surged in; his expression changed in an instant, no longer calm, but turning to shock, heartache, and disbelief.

...

...

There were seven minutes left before the formal launch of the Heavenly Sheath Weapon.

The highest level of the Three Continents Alliance, after their last meeting, had immediately used the Light Fire as a source to build a closed network that did not need to rely on the Deep Sea to carry out a Spiritual Link.

At this moment, the conference room in that closed sea region brightened from darkness.

One figure after another entered the meeting in the form of Spiritual Consciousness.

They were precisely the same few people who had held the decision-making meeting earlier in Da Du.

Plus one more.

Gu Shen, using the "Initial" as a base station, also entered this meeting. Whether in terms of status or strength, Gu Shen was fully qualified to participate.

Every participant who entered the meeting wore a very grave expression.

They knew.

At such a juncture, to convene a spiritual conference could only mean one thing... that an extremely重大变故 had occurred—one that would affect the Heavenly Sheath Strike.

The atmosphere in the conference room of the closed sea region was suffocatingly grim and deathly silent.

Aside from Gu Shen, almost every participant turned their gaze to the initiator of this meeting.

North Continent, Central City, Lin Lin.

"There are seven minutes left before the formal launch of the Heavenly Sheath Weapon. I’m very sorry to have called you all here..."

Lin Lin’s voice was trembling.

He clenched his fists tightly, steadying his emotions so that the spiritual images to follow could be smoothly projected before everyone in the conference room.

Gu Nanfeng and Meng Xizhou held their breath.

Lu Nanzhi’s eyes were blank.

Gu Shen lowered his eyelids in silence. He had more or less guessed what Lin Lin was about to show, yet the images that followed still shocked him.

["All personnel! On alert! On alert!"]

A furious shout shattered this blurry footage.

Countless Source Energy Boats rose to the sky, their lights piercing the darkness of the giant wall, yet they could not compare to the snow-white catastrophe before them.

This was the "footage" captured by Zou Hai from a first-person perspective.

The video lasted a total of fourteen seconds.

The entire Gu Castle Fortress unleashed its full firepower, but before that terrifying snow-white torrent, it only held out for fourteen seconds... The footage then switched to another view, one forcibly requisitioned by Lin Chou using the "Empress Highest Seat" privilege—an overhead view of the Gu Castle Fortress. The proud, solid Fortress on the northern Frontier in recent years had become nothing but a desolate ruin.

The giant wall, the towers, the airships...

Human dignity was crushed and swept away in just fourteen seconds.

"Everyone..."

Lin Lin’s eyes were red and swollen, his voice hoarse: "A Super Giant Source Material Storm has descended."