As Y'zaks bellow rang across the battlefield, both sides were shaken by what the demon king had proclaimed. General Grigory held his sword tightly, his eyes were cautious. At the same time, he asked his adjutant, "What's a phone call?"
Serathon had also tightened his grip on his warglaive, and roared at one of the demonic army officers, "Quick, go check what 'blast your a**es to kingdom come' means!"
Upon Helcrown's battlements, Hao Ren and the rest was still in a daze, each and everyone of them were stunned silent. It took a while before Vivian managed to come up with a reaction. Her face was rather incredulous. "So... big guy, care to share your combat strategy?"
Well that was proof that even a person like Y'zaks wasn't immune to Earth's influence after staying there for half a year. The demon king had already picked up a boat load of words that only Earthlings would understand, and to compound the fact, due to the difference between world views, Y'zaks knew the exact meaning of the words and did not find them offensive. He took the words literally, word for word, and when he bellowed them out, his face was deadpan serious...
The Allied Army had increased the pace of their attack as more and more arcane cannons finished charging and their payload being blasted towards Helcrown in a flurry. But as they thought victory was at grasp, and the end of the Demon King's army was nigh, an unknown screech roared across the sky!
The western skies suddenly lit up in silver as countless white and madder red coloured missiles rained upon them like a sudden storm. Neither the Allied Army or the demon host could react in any capacity, and was thrown into chaos by the sudden attack of this skyborn 'phenomenon'. The rear of the both encampments was an inferno.
"Mysterious silver object..." Grigory only then realised that the sentries had meant after looking at the metal attack vessels and that why they had ignored the outposts during their initial flight. They only bared their fangs at the battlefield itself, and with the reappearance of Helcrown, this two are definitely related!
But the Aerym's attack came in a blitz, and was about as quick as the magical transmission used by the Allied Army. By the time General Grigory had gotten word of it, he did not have the time to even assess the situation or to react. He did the only thing he could, and ordered his men into defensive formations. "DEPLOY BARRIERS! SPREAD OUT!"
The Allied Army quickly formed up into defensive formation as each race quickly deployed barriers and spread out. While the arcane cannons changed their targets to their new airborne threat. Griffon riders and mages took to the air to combat the weird metal monsters.
A battle of epic proportions that no one had ever seen before had commenced.
Plasma blasts scorched the earth in blinding rays, and the floating debris above the Shattered Plains were blasted into white hot chucks of molten rock. Those demons who were too slow to react were seared into ash by the superhot plasma blasts. Serathon immediately deployed an army-wide demonic barrier as he commanded the demonic cannons to counter fire while his eyes was still locked onto Helcrown. Then, something appeared that was forever seared into mind of all present.
The dimensional gate beside Helcrown had grown into massive proportions, almost as of a black wall was descending from the heavens. A dimensional rift was visible as the object broke through the gate. At the same time, a few pyramid-shaped aircraft had earlier bypassed the aerial defences and everyone's attentio and now they were appearing slowly from the dimensional gate, behind the ships were countless guiding lights as they were seemingly towing something out of the gate.
Under the guidance of the light, the object finally showed itself, and it was blocked out the heavens.
It was like a floating mountain range, a city beyond the clouds, or a moving continent above everyone's head. The old space hulk bore the scars of past battles and disasters. Kilometres by kilometres the space hulk appeared from the gate, as if it was threatening to crush everyone underfoot. The sudden appearance of such a colossal hulk that was riddled with holes and appendages struck fear into every being on the field.
The hundred kilometre long ancient space hulk was floating under the aid of the anti-gravity generators as it lumbered its way out of the gate. The Aerym's spacecrafts were massive objects in the eyes of those who had saw it earlier. But with the space hulk's appearance, they look nothing but gnats beside a behemoth.
The space hulk blocked out the heavens and turned the entire Shattered Plains into a premature night. Under the teeming darkness, only the flashes of plasma and explosions of heat-seeking missiles reminded everyone that the battle was still ongoing.
One of the micro-missiles flew towards him, and General Grigory easily destroyed the missile with a slash of his sword. The holy light had obliterated the missile before it got even close and the fragmentations and aftershock slammed against the magic barrier. But behind the first micro-missile, was a swarm of it's kind racing towards him.
A paladin of his calibre could easily take care of a missile, but the advanced firepower that the Aeryms brought smothered the heavens.
The target of the missiles were however not him, but the arcane cannons behind him. Hao Ren was right, while the Aeryms indeed had advanced technology, but the fight was real, and not a simulation. Those cannons were a real threat.
At least towards the space hulk which was without any barriers, and its armor ruined. The structure itself was barely held together by nails and duct tapes.
Grigory too realised the fact, that Helcrown was not the main character of today. It was the massive iron continent that appeared from the other dimension.
What was that thing?
Grigory, Serathon, Banuklaak and all other commanding officers wondered at the same time. Was this what the demon king would used for his revival? A superweapon of sorts? Or was it an ancient demonic relic, or was it the true source of the demon king's power?
And those flying metal boxes was summoned by the demon king from the other world?
Grigory pointed his sword towards the floating behemoth. "TAKE THAT DOWN!"
"That will cause massive casualties, sir!" His adjutant was horrified as Grigory gave the order. The long shadow had covered the entire Shattered Plains, It was like a moving continent above everyone's head, and if it were to crash into the ground with its current trajectory, the casualties would be beyond imagination.
Grigory gave his adjutant a cold glare. "Don't make me repeat myself, officer! TAKE THAT DOWN! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR CONVICTIONS TO DIE FIGHTING?!"
At the very moment, the demon host had came to the same conclusion as the demonic cannons trained their guns towards the space hulk. Countless corrisive green energy pounded the behemoth. In an instance, the belly of the space hulk was lit green. The structure itself was not stable from the outset, and the rattling was even worse now.
Behind the demon cannons, was fusillade of spellflame that churned into a fiery net.
Looking down at the battlefield, Y'zaks drew his sword. "Men, follow me! We destroy those demonic cannons!"
"I'll take care of the human's artilleries." Vimm's voice rang out from the communicator. "The space hulk's structure is worse than expected. The tow ships are accelerating now. Please help to take out those stray missiles."
The space hulk creaked as the tow ships accelerated towards the western teleportation gate. Hao Ren had thought to show off the Petrachelys for a bit, but thought otherwise as it went to deploy the gate. It was the only ship in the fleet that was capable of opening a gate big enough for the space hulk to pass through, and therefore it had to be at the forefront of the fleet.
The Aerym's spacecraft started bombarding the Allied Army's firebase, while the smaller fighter crafts tangled with the Griffon riders and mages. They seems to be winning. Y'zaks and his demonic retinue leapt from the high walls of Helcrown, while more joined in using the city's teleportation gates. Demons and obsidian golems, the mighty army rushed headlong towards Serathon and Banuklaak's forces.
The plasma blasters that were used to cut up their floating islands, photon cannons that were used to destroy out-of-control coronal stations, disintegration beams that were used to well.. disintegrate abandoned islands.... Technically speaking, the Aerym's combat crafts were in fact engineering tools, but with the vast gulf in technology, even an ore digger could be a doomsday weapon!
As the griffon riders fought against the pyramid-shaped fighters, arcane cannons bombarding the anti-gravitation frigates. The heat of the battle dominated the skies. As mages and paladins unleashed their spells and holy light, an unprecedented scene of battle unfolded over the battlefield.