Chapter 284: The Dragon Coiling Around the Stars—The Great Wall!
The sudden appearance of this massive fleet left both humans and gods momentarily stunned.
Panic quickly spread among the humans.
After the previous incident with the monster-nest comet, this approaching armada clearly did not seem friendly.
However, some humans and gods remained calm, believing it might be an allied force.
The distinctly metallic warships led Irina and others to assume they belonged to Qin Shi Huang's army.
After all, they had traveled to that parallel world—no, the Immortal Realm—and witnessed similarly sci-fi-esque warships there.
So, these might very well be reinforcements sent by Qin Shi Huang to protect Earth.
Yet, Serafall noticed the ashen expression on the face of Sefaira, the shrine maiden from another world, whose eyes were filled with terror.
Why would she look so frightened?
Suddenly, Serafall's own face paled as she remembered something.
Those warships were enemies!!!
Hadn't Sefaira shared this intel with them? That Evil God Melvazoa, one of the three pillars of the otherworldly Evie Etoulde, commanded forces of mechanical lifeforms, right?
Indeed, the warships looked peculiar, unlike anything humans would construct, almost monstrous in appearance.
A closer look at other ongoing battles revealed that the Primordial Gods wielded bizarre, high-tech weapons, clearly having integrated otherworldly forces into their arsenal.
The situation was dire!
How would they confront this new crisis?
Serafall turned her gaze toward one emperor—Qin Shi Huang.
Could he handle it?
Just then—
"Th-they're attacking!"
"Why?"
"Aren't those Qin Shi Huang's troops?"
"Fool, do they look like his forces?"
The fleet surrounding Earth had unleashed colossal beams from long-range cannons, capable of obliterating mountains and rivers.
If those beams struck fully, the planet might not be destroyed, but the surface would be scorched into barren wasteland, bringing about humanity's immediate end.
Gods and humans alike watched with grim faces, fists clenched, hoping for another miracle.
At the moment of impact, a flash of light made everyone's hearts leap into their throats.
Was it the aftermath of a hit?
But it seemed something had intercepted the attack just before it landed?
As the light faded, the scene that unfolded left everyone speechless.
"Wh-what is that?"
"A dragon?"
"An Eastern dragon?"
"It's enormous!"
Voices trembled, overwhelmed by the sheer awe of the sight.
A golden dragon, not the lizard-like giant dragon, but the slender, serpentine kind from the East.
This dragon emerged from the void and coiled around the entire Earth.
Yes, it coiled around the entire Earth.
Thus, one could see how immense this Eastern divine dragon was—so vast that it could trigger megalophobia in anyone.
"Wait, what is that?"
"Another Earth?"
"An Immortal Realm modeled after Earth?"
Only then did the crowd and the deities notice that above the Earth, specifically over the North Pole, massive ripples had appeared, reflecting a planet like a water surface?
And this golden Eastern divine dragon had emerged from the other side of that reflected planet.
Suddenly, the golden dragon's radiance began to fade, as if it were about to vanish.
Come to think of it, the dragon seemed to be constructed entirely of light.
As the light dissipated, the crowd and the deities were stunned once more.
The golden dragon's form disappeared, replaced by an unusual appearance—but it was no longer that of a dragon. Part of it looked like—
"The Gr-Great Wall?"
"A Great Wall built among the stars?"
"No, that's a war machine!"
As the words suggested, the cold, colossal steel structure closely resembled the Ten-Thousand-Mile Great Wall built by humans in the Eastern world.
Though called the Ten-Thousand-Mile Great Wall, the actual relic in the human world was, of course, not that long—it was an exaggeration.
But the steel Great Wall now hovering in the starry sky was truly worthy of its name—no, it stretched at least a hundred thousand kilometers or more.
And as stated, it was indeed a war machine, with numerous armed facilities visible on it, seemingly designed for launching attacks.
In the next instant, these facilities lit up, and the entire cold steel Great Wall began to operate.
Then, it let out a roar akin to a dragon's cry, and billions of destructive light beams surged toward the blockading fleet.
Smaller warships were instantly vaporized, while the powerful ones saw their defensive shields barely holding out—they felt as fragile as paper, pierced and torn apart.
With just this single wave of attack, nearly the entire fleet was annihilated, leaving the onlookers—both humans and deities—speechless.
Their pupils contracted as they realized it wasn't over yet.
Although the warships were nearly wiped out, there were still far too many soldier-like mechanical divine lifeforms, densely packed, giving the illusion that their numbers might even surpass that of humanity.
Perhaps that was indeed possible!
Upon closer inspection, not only were there mechanical lifeforms, but also a multitude of bizarre, insect-like creatures, similar to those from the earlier comet nests.
All of them were charging toward Earth!
Thus, the Ten-Thousand-Mile Great Wall launched its second wave.
This time, it released even more light beams that swept across, moving as they struck.
If the first wave could be called particle cannons, then the second wave was like laser beams.
In the blink of an eye, they had wiped out most of the invaders.
At that moment, the Ten-Thousand-Mile Great Wall suddenly detached some objects, sending them plummeting toward the Earth's surface.
"What—what is it doing?"
"Hey, hey, this is no joke if it crashes down!"
"Is it trying to destroy the human world?"
"Probably not, right?"
Those separated objects were also exceptionally massive; any one of them crashing into the human world could effortlessly obliterate humanity's largest city.
For smaller nations, it would likely mean instant annihilation!
So, what exactly was happening?
The objects had already made contact with the atmosphere, and the friction on their surfaces immediately generated intense heat.
To the humans on the surface, it appeared as though a giant meteor was about to strike the Earth!
They probably thought the apocalypse had arrived!