As the armor plates fully opened, thousands of energy cannon ports were revealed beneath them.
They were arranged in neat, dense rows like a honeycomb, giving off a cold and deadly feeling.
Those cannon ports looked like an enraged swarm of hornets poking their hideous heads out from the thick clouds.
Inside the barrels, dark-red light began gathering at terrifying speed. The glow grew brighter and stronger by the second, as if it meant to swallow everything around it.
Within that light seemed to be endless destructive force. The slightest touch would be enough to trigger an earth-shaking explosion.
Even more terrifying was the fact that Uranus's core had also entered an overloaded state.
Countless energy conduits pulsed violently like crisscrossing blood vessels inside a body, continuously feeding horrifying power into every single cannon port.
The energy rushed through the conduits at incredible speed, releasing a deep buzzing sound, as if roaring and screaming, eager to be unleashed.
The entire sky was covered in thick dark-red light.
The once-blue heavens were dyed blood-red in an instant.
That crimson color spread like a tide, staining even the clouds with an eerie shade.
At a glance, it looked as if the whole world had fallen into a sea of blood, giving everyone the illusion that the end had finally arrived.
Imu's mad, arrogant laughter echoed freely through that blood-soaked atmosphere.
She danced among the flowers like a witch who controlled life and death.
Her long hair moved without wind, every strand seeming to have a life of its own. The tips had even turned into burning dark flames, flickering with strange fire.
She raised her head, madness shining in her eyes, and roared,
"This is what happens to those who make an enemy of god!"
Then she extended a slender yet powerful finger, pointing toward the Eternal Divine Kingdom below as she spat viciously,
"Eternal Divine Kingdom? Today, I'll turn it into eternal ruins!"
At her command, every cannon port adjusted its angle at the same time with perfect precision.
Their movements were identical, without the slightest error.
They were like an army of well-trained soldiers standing ready, aiming all their attacks at the once-glorious Eternal Divine Kingdom below.
At that moment, dark-red light of death gathered at the mouths of the cannons, like the Sword of Damocles hanging overhead, ready at any moment to pour down and turn everything below into ash.
...
Above the waters of the Divine Kingdom, the once-peaceful sky had become strange and unpredictable.
The gem-blue heavens seemed to have been torn apart by a pair of invisible, brutal hands, instantly splitting open with countless shocking blood-red cracks.
Those cracks were like bloody tears shed by the sky in unbearable pain, spreading across the horizon in tangled lines and slicing the heavens into fragments. The intense, eerie color made everyone's skin crawl.
The heavy clouds seemed to be driven by some powerful force and began churning violently.
They crashed and squeezed against one another, gradually forming a massive vortex that covered hundreds of miles.
That vortex was like a giant beast lurking in the clouds, radiating a terrifying aura.
At the very center of the vortex, a cold mechanical eye slowly opened.
There was no trace of warmth or life in that eye, only endless indifference and killing intent. Deep within its pupil flickered a cold light, as though it could see through all things in the world.
Looking closely, it became clear that Uranus's main cannon was charging.
Dark-red energy rolled wildly within that giant eye like boiling magma.
Every pulse of energy contained the power to destroy heaven and earth. The suffocating pressure it released descended toward the ground like a solid mountain, making everyone who felt it tremble with fear and lose strength in their legs.
"Not good!"
Ron's face turned pale in an instant, and beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.
With his sharp senses, he could clearly feel that unprecedented wave of power.
The energy was like a raging tsunami, sweeping toward them with mountain-crushing force.
At this critical moment, Ron made a decisive call and roared,
"Everyone, listen! Full defense! Don't let a single laser touch our land!"
His voice was firm and powerful, ringing across the sky like a great bell.
Every word carried undeniable urgency, as if sounding the alarm for the deadly trial they were about to face.
Almost at the same instant, the blood-red giant eye in the sky snapped open in fury, releasing a terrifying glare.
Then came a deafening whistle—
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—!
Thousands of dark-red lasers poured down from the giant eye like a dense rainstorm.
Everywhere those lasers passed, the air ignited with sharp sizzling sounds, as if everything in their path would be burned to ash.
Carrying the will to destroy all things, they shot rapidly toward the Divine Kingdom's territory below.
A brutal battle began.
High in the sky, the lasers were like monstrous pythons from the abyss of chaos.
Each one was as thick as an ancient tree that had lived for a thousand years.
The energy contained within them felt like the most primitive and violent force from the birth of the universe. With overwhelming momentum, they tore viciously through the vast sky.
The space they ripped apart looked like a great sheet of black silk being brutally torn open, revealing the chilling void behind it.
When that torrential rain of lasers appeared before everyone, a bone-deep fear instantly swallowed the crowd.
They could barely breathe, as if an invisible hand had clamped around their throats and was slowly choking them.
The boundless sea below boiled instantly under the unimaginable heat of the lasers.
Countless bubbles surged wildly from the water like little spirits struggling to survive, only to be vaporized in the next instant.
Rolling steam rose from the sea like a vast and eerie curtain of death, slowly covering the entire region in a hazy, sinister atmosphere.
The steam carried the salty bitterness of seawater heated to the extreme, mixed with the scent of death, enough to make anyone shiver.
As for the surrounding air, it had already reached an overloaded state from the massive energy impact.