After waking from the dream, Roland immediately summoned Tilly.
"I have a basic understanding of the detailed intelligence regarding the Floating Land. It is indeed a creation of the demons, and they call it 'God-Made God'."
Tilly couldn't help but be stunned. It had only been a few hours since she brought the news. Where did this intelligence come from?
"In short, I have some special channels," Roland naturally understood the doubts in her mind, but the fact that the Nightmare Lord was trapped in the dream world was too difficult to explain, so he chose to skip it directly. "The intelligence may have deviations, so it can only be used as a reference. The actual situation still needs to be verified by you."
Then he briefly explained the origin of the God-Made God.
"So, it's actually a floating city?" Tilly asked in surprise.
"Yes," Roland nodded, "but it's much larger than a city."
According to Vakiris, combining the obelisk that creates the red mist with a magic core can produce extremely astonishing effects – although it did not participate in the creation of the God-Made God, it knew the entire plan like the back of its hand. In order to obtain stable core parameters, the demons had conducted many experiments, one of which, the test in Tabuni Second City a hundred years ago, almost destroyed the entire city. The violent magic instantly tore apart the strata, and buildings rose from the ground one after another, disintegrating and shattering during the ascent, with countless Lesser Demons being thrown into the air and then falling, turning into puddles of flesh.
In order to block the news, the king ultimately attributed it to a magic accident. Despite the heavy losses, the plan not only did not stop, but instead accelerated. Aside from the approaching Battle of Divine Will, a major reason was that the demons urgently needed to get rid of the restrictions of the red mist. This disaster at least made the higher-ups see that the plan was not without the possibility of realization.
The God-Made God was the final result they obtained.
Magic penetrates thousands of meters underground, and then lifts tens of square kilometers of land to meet the basic stability requirements. From the sky, it is a floating land, and from below, it looks like an upside-down mountain peak that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. By adjusting the magic of the core instruments, the God-Made God can not only float up and down, but also travel through the sky like a ship.
Because of this feature, the demon high command also regarded it as the only way to counterattack the Sky-Sea Realm. Once they seize human territory, they will be able to gain another round of rest, and at that time, more God-Made Gods will undoubtedly rise into the sky, bringing a large number of Greater Demons directly to airdrop into the Sky-Sea Realm.
This intelligence also made Roland realize that the other party's progress in the past four hundred years should not be underestimated. They and humans have embarked on a completely different technological path, but that does not mean that they are the backward side.
Magic is undoubtedly a very potential power, as can be seen from the God-Made God plan. Whether it is tearing apart the earth, throwing thousands of buildings into the air, or raising a piece of land and converting it into energy, the numbers are extremely astonishing. Now the demons' experiments are more inclined to empirical theory, but quantitative change often brings qualitative change. Once these experiences are transformed into systematic scientific theories, their strength will inevitably advance by leaps and bounds.
This is the same for humans.
After the war is over, it is very necessary to establish a magic discipline as soon as possible. Even if he doesn't know anything about magic, he can at least guide future generations to conduct research on this power.
This is also the essence of science.
Anything that exists is the object of its observation.
"Although I don't know where your intelligence came from, it sounds quite plausible." Tilly said thoughtfully, "So, have you come up with a way to deal with the God-Made God?"
"First of all, this thing is almost immune to any artillery fire. The First Army should focus on preserving its own strength. Secondly, the Sky Knights will be the key to the next operation." Roland said slowly, "It can’t be said that there is no way to deal with it, but whether it can be successful is still unknown."
Facing a moving land, even if the Sun's Radiance is used, it may not be able to achieve the ideal effect, which has long been confirmed in history. During Operation Crossroads, two plutonium bombs with a yield of approximately 23,000 tons were detonated in the air and underwater, respectively. The former failed to sink a large ship more than 300 meters from the hypocenter, and the latter's range of serious damage was only 1,000 meters. It can be seen that the power of nuclear weapons will be greatly reduced when facing large targets.
What's more, the God-Made God is much larger than a ship.
It's like using a prototype nuclear warhead to bombard the Endless Mountains. Dropping a hundred of them would probably only blow off a corner.
Yield can certainly solve all problems, and anything that cannot be solved is because the yield is not enough, but for Winterfell's existing technology, a yield of 10,000 tons is probably the limit.
Therefore, in addition to needing to use the power of the Sun's Radiance, he also had to formulate a feasible plan to complete this dawn strike.
The core of the God-Made God is undoubtedly the obelisk. According to Vakiris's description, it is located in the center of the city. In order to facilitate the accumulation of red mist, Lesser Demons will continuously dig deep pits around the obelisk – this is also the main task of a witchless one's life. Red mist, which is heavier than air, will gradually fall to the bottom, gathering into Mayfly Pools, and gradually expanding into lakes in the long years that follow.
This also reminded Roland of the demon city he had seen in the memory fragments – countless towers were built along the cliffs of the ring pit, and the pit was filled with red mist like a crystalline solid. Perhaps after thousands of years of accumulation, the depth of the lake has become extremely astonishing, and the huge pressure has caused the density of the lower red mist to increase sharply, to the point that it has been compressed from a liquid state into a crystalline state.
The city that was transformed into the God-Made God is also an old city, and there is also a red mist lake at the bottom of the obelisk, which is obviously the breakthrough point.
Vakiris's "Mayfly Theory" also confirmed the experiments and speculations that Lily and others have been making all along – red mist is essentially a foggy phenomenon composed of a fine group of microorganisms. This organism is extremely small and difficult to observe with low-magnification microscopes. It also possesses magic and will cause severe backlash to magic creatures other than demons. This is also why Lily has never been able to control red mist through her ability.
Red mist has many characteristics of living things, such as fear of fire. At high temperatures, it will quickly escape, macroscopically manifesting as accelerated decomposition; when the temperature rises to a certain level, it will catch fire and burn, which is no different from other carbon-based organisms being ignited. The ignition point of eight or nine hundred degrees Celsius is already outstanding.
The only difference is that it is extremely small, so when mixed with air, it will cause deflagration. Iron Axe once staged a scene of fiery sky in the Wolfheart King's capital, Fangtooth City. What he has to do now is to ignite the entire sky.
Burning mayflies will rapidly reduce energy and deplete the surrounding oxygen, so the starting temperature must be high enough. Theoretically, a large number of incendiary bombs can also achieve the same effect, but if he wants to transport hundreds of tons of napalm onto the God-Made God, he needs a bomber squadron.
Regardless of the yield, the core temperature of the Sun's Radiance is undiminished.
The only problem that needs to be solved is how to penetrate the defense line guarded by a large number of demons and Terror Beasts, go straight to the sky above the obelisk, and complete the precision bombing.
"It's good to have a method." Tilly's expression seemed to be much more relieved. "No matter how much the probability of success is, everyone will work together to make it happen. Leave this to us, brother. I will bring this good news back to the command headquarters."
This feeling of being fully trusted made Roland feel a burst of warmth in his heart.
He paused for a moment, calmed his mind slightly, picked up a quill pen and wrote on a blank piece of paper, "By the way, I have something else I need you to take to Ms. Edith Kant."
After writing, he did not put the letter in an envelope, but handed it directly to Tilly.
The latter took it and glanced at it, and couldn't help but frown, "What's written on this is..."
"The demons' writing." Roland replied frankly.