Chapter 326 Flame Vortex

The war ignited in an instant, and the entire Gurun Nuo'er Great Desert was completely engulfed in flames and smoke.

A 150,000-ton nuclear warhead, upon detonation, would produce a fireball approximately five hundred square meters in size. Within this radius, the intense heat and terrifying shockwaves would obliterate all life. Even secondary evolution creatures would be vaporized instantly!

Of course... the Black Night Apostle might be an exception.

It had once used its physical strength to withstand the intense heat energy cannon of the Burning Steel Wall. Its defensive capabilities had reached an almost abnormal level. Its body was stronger than alloy steel and could withstand temperatures of hundreds of thousands of degrees Celsius for a short period!

After a nuclear warhead detonated, the shockwave could reach a radius of 3.7 kilometers, and the thermal radiation damage radius was even greater, reaching more than 5 kilometers!

Within this range, almost no primary evolution creatures could survive.

As for the nuclear radiation with an even larger diffusion area... for evolutionaries, this kind of radiation that could cause cell collapse was not much of a threat. The cell stability of evolutionaries was very strong and would not undergo further mutations due to nuclear radiation.

Based on the data just calculated, when a nuclear warhead fell, its effective kill area was about forty square kilometers.

At this time, the ancient civilization's numerous followers and the beast tide were scattered across nearly 100,000 square kilometers of land in this desert, almost equivalent to the area of a province!

To completely cover such a large area with artillery fire, at least nearly three hundred nuclear missiles would be consumed in one round!

The roaring sounds resounded through the sky.

Flames and dust billowed above the great desert.

In just a few dozen seconds, three hundred nuclear warheads detonated above this desert.

The dazzling light was like a sun, making it impossible for the human coalition forces, who were tens of kilometers away at the edge of the explosion range, to look directly at it, feeling as if their eyes were about to be burned!

The strong gale howled and raged around, carrying terrifying electromagnetic pulses. In an instant, the entire magnetic field above the great desert was disrupted and began to twist crazily.

This was definitely a disaster!

The sea beasts at the epicenter of the explosion didn't even have time to roar before their bodies were instantly vaporized. They were the lowest-level cannon fodder, whose role was to consume the firepower of the human coalition forces. Dying under nuclear missiles was their destiny.

The sea beast group, after the sea demon was killed, fell into a short period of chaos. Then the ancient civilization reappeared, and the sea beasts believed that they had found a new backer, and began to get excited and plot revenge against humans, against Li Tianran, and against Kuangxi Island.

But it was clear that the ancient civilization did not regard them as allies.

Their fate was even more miserable than before the ancient civilization's revival!

They were treated as cheap labor, food, and cannon fodder by the apostles!

Li Tianran looked at the sky-covering artillery fire, thinking about the fate of those sea beasts, and silently speculated in his heart... perhaps it would have been a better ending for these sea beasts to have died in battle alongside their emperor.

At least they died as free beings, not being arbitrarily driven by the ancient civilization like dogs, as they were now!

"Continue launching!" With Li Tianran's order, the fighters carrying nuclear missiles pressed the launch button again, and hundreds of missiles roared across the sky, heading towards the desert covered by flames.

In this war, because of the existence of the secondary sequence followers and apostles, Li Tianran needed to be extra cautious.

He did not intend to let the tank and chariot units enter the battlefield and engage in close combat with the enemy after only one round of missile carpet bombing at the beginning of the war.

The number of beast tides driven by the ancient civilization was too large. Li Tianran needed to clear out these miscellaneous soldiers first, ensure that the ground troops would not be disturbed by them, and then have the air force and ground troops advance together.

What Li Tianran wanted was more than just one artillery fire coverage.

He needed two, three, four!

Even if the ancient civilization's miracle buildings possessed the "Tinglei Barrier" (pavilion and fortress barrier) that could resist kinetic energy weapons, a few rounds of nuclear missiles would still create a dent in the opponent's barrier!

The earth-shattering shockwaves and exploding firelight continued to rise. After the last round of nuclear missile carpet bombing, Li Tianran looked at the Gurun Nuo'er Great Desert, which had completely turned into a land of purgatory, and was silent for a moment before ordering: "All on alert, stay where you are!"

"Kunlun Giant Ship, advance!"

Li Tianran ordered the human coalition forces to stay in place temporarily, while he and the Pioneer Corps drove the Kunlun Giant Ship towards the center of the battlefield, accompanied by ten mech warriors.

The Kunlun Giant Ship was very fast and quickly arrived above the center of the explosion.

Looking down from this angle, the entire desert was burning fiercely. Even the largest volcanic eruption on Blue Star was not as terrifying as this scene.

Under this vast expanse of high-temperature firelight, no instrument could detect the conditions under the firelight. Even patrol-class radar guards would be melted when passing through the high-temperature firelight.

"With such an offensive, even the ancient civilization will be defeated, right!"

"Let you see what is the strongest firepower of mankind!"

"In the face of nuclear weapons, all living beings are equal!"

In the human coalition forces, many generals began to get excited, clenching their fists tightly. They hoped that under this round of crazy firepower coverage, the ancient civilization, which had not yet revived its technological weapons, would be defeated and annihilated!

In the sea of fire below, there was a deathly silence.

Li Tianran narrowed his eyes.

He had confidence in nuclear weapons, but he didn't think that this round of nuclear weapon firepower coverage could wipe out the ancient civilization. It would be very good if such firepower could cause some damage to the ancient civilization!

At this moment, it was as if a gust of wind suddenly swept through the fiery desert, and a huge flame vortex appeared below!

At the same time as this flame vortex appeared, the light, fire, and shockwaves generated by the nuclear weapon explosion began to be distorted and pulled, and were swept into this vortex. Those terrifying energies disappeared at an extremely fast speed.

No... not disappearing, but being collected, being captured!

Li Tianran's pupils shrank. He looked at the rapidly dissipating sea of fire, staring at the huge vortex, and suddenly had a feeling that the function of this vortex seemed to be the same as the function of the Kuangxi Island "Four Sea Dragon King" (Si Hai Long Wang) engine!

Both were creating a "net" that could collect energy through operation!

It's just that the Four Sea Dragon King was used in the sea, while this unknown flame vortex was used in the battlefield where artillery fire was flying!

"Collecting explosion energy, thermal energy, and transforming it into a planetary-level engine for its own energy?" Li Tianran quickly judged that this was a product created by a miracle building of a certain apostle. It quickly captured and collected the nuclear weapon energy that was wantonly raging on the battlefield!

In just thirty seconds, the entire desert, which was originally covered by flames, was now completely silent, not even a trace of flame was left!

In the apocalyptic ruins of the desert, at the top of the towering Tower of Babel, the Wind Apostle looked up at the Kunlun Giant Ship in the sky, and suddenly a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"We are a race that has emerged from countless great destructions and survived to this day."

"Even meteor showers and asteroids could not destroy us..."

"These missiles... are you tickling us?"