Chapter 046: Deadly Crisis Brought by the Orbital Fortress!

Countless fireballs with trailing flames appeared to be falling toward the planet.

In reality, they were numerous warcraft entering the atmosphere.

The Imperial Thunderhawk gunships, multi-functional aircraft combining orbital drop capabilities with gunship and medium bomber functions, had their gun barrels constantly flashing orange light, attacking everything that attacked them—including identical craft.

As they approached the ground, highly destructive ammunition was dropped, crashing heavily toward targets they deemed should be destroyed. Devastating shock waves and flames engulfed the surroundings.

Suddenly, there was a sharp metallic wail and a sound like glass shattering. A large splash of blood covered the broken cockpit window, and the metal floor near the pilot's position had been torn open.

From the direction of the tear, it was evident that the shell had penetrated from below, destroying the control system before further damaging the window.

This firepower came not from other aircraft but from ground-based anti-aircraft defenses.

With both pilot and co-pilot killed, this Imperial aircraft lost control, spiraling and tumbling toward the ground.

However, before it made intimate contact with the earth, the surviving people inside appeared to be thrown out, though they had actually jumped out voluntarily.

The armaments of these soldiers were clearly visible—they weren't ordinary soldiers but Astartes warriors.

More soldiers were parachuting in the sky—they were the PDF (Planetary Defense Force) of this planet.

They hadn't been transported from some military fortress on the planet's surface by large transport aircraft; most had been directly carried down from orbital transport ships in space.

Most hadn't even reached the ground before their transport ships were hit, forcing them to parachute early.

Some couldn't deploy their parachutes at all because their transport ships had been directly blown up, their bodies embedded with countless metal fragments as they fell.

Looking carefully, the dense artillery fire from beyond the atmosphere toward the ground seemed somewhat indiscriminate, as it was hitting the descending troops.

But upon closer inspection, the trajectory of the fire hitting these airborne troops clearly came from several directions, as if the firepower there had been seized by the enemy.

Suddenly, dozens of terrifying massive light beams penetrated the atmosphere and struck multiple locations on the ground, especially the suburban area closest to Ejie, where the warship factory had been.

Blue explosion light instantly engulfed the factory, vaporizing it while excavating the earth.

The shock wave further devastated the ground, spreading outward carrying dust-like sand mist.

Thus, Ejie was about to face a "sandstorm" that blotted out the sky.

However, all of this wasn't the most lethal threat.

Before the impact sandstorm swept over him, Ejie saw the worst situation.

This situation came from the sky, from a defense fortress in planetary orbit.

He wasn't concerned about its artillery fire, but rather the fortress itself—which was leaving its orbit.

...

Having witnessed the war scenes between androids and mechanical lifeforms in Miss A2's world, which had been quite shocking.

Now, the war scene before her eyes further shook the Black Cat.

If Miss A2's war could be described as an intense conflict between nations on a major battlefield, then the war in this golden toilet dimensional friend's world was a global war.

It looked like a war engulfing the entire world, a war defending the world, a doomsday war to resist extraterrestrial invasion.

Demons were one thing, but those insect-like monsters looked very much like the alien swarm invasion from those Alien movies that Black Cat had seen.

[Fallen Saint Black Cat: How should I describe this war in his world...]

There were laser cannons, electromagnetic guns, and massive objects clearly visible to the naked eye through the cloud layers—they looked like space fortresses.

With such a level of technology, this world's armaments and combat performance differed greatly from the wars in A2's world.

Miss A2's world's warfare seemed like futuristic sci-fi combat.

But the warfare in his world gave one a sense of backwardness.

Take the densely packed airborne troops, for instance—this looked very much like the large-scale group airborne operations from World War II in her world.

It was—

[Goal is to become S.T.A.R.S.: The fighting style is outdated, not keeping up with the times, just like the human wave tactics from World War II]

Another dimensional friend who was also online watching this battle replied thus, expressing exactly what Black Cat wanted to say.

Regarding the world of "Goal is to become S.T.A.R.S.," some people knew the plot of her world and had informed her of what would happen, so she now needed to infiltrate an organization called S.T.A.R.S. to investigate what T-virus crisis would occur in her world.

Exactly what crisis it was, another dimensional friend said they needed to go offline to properly organize the information before telling her. This friend knew about it because "Goal is to become S.T.A.R.S." had mentioned a company in her world that this friend recognized—it was a company from a bio-hazard movie they had seen: the Umbrella Corporation.

This was one of the pieces of evidence for the conclusion that information about one's world might exist in some form in another friend's world.

That friend who was supposed to organize the information and come back online to provide details never returned, making people wonder if something had happened to them in their real world.

This friend who knew about the situation in "Goal is to become S.T.A.R.S." world was one of Black Cat's most familiar online friends.

Because this person was a doujinshi artist who had revealed their real name—or rather, their online name was registered using their real name: Setsuna Shimazaki.

So, being offline for so long made Black Cat quite worried.

By the way, the crisis occurring in "Goal is to become S.T.A.R.S." world was said to be a zombie crisis, similar to Saeko Busujima's world.

Therefore, Black Cat had searched for zombie-related content, accidentally discovering that her world also had information about Saeko Busujima's world.

[Goal is to become S.T.A.R.S.: It shouldn't be this way! If they can drop such large numbers of soldiers, even vehicles and aircraft from space, not to mention that huge fortress, it indicates space technology far beyond my era. But this fighting style is too outdated, treating soldiers as expendable!!!]

Black Cat could feel the anger in "Goal is to become S.T.A.R.S." words, and she understood.

Because there were too many—it felt like hundreds of thousands or even millions of soldiers. Such an airborne operation showed complete disregard for human life.

Having developed to this level, they shouldn't be using human wave tactics; warfare should be more mechanized.

Look at the artillery firing toward the sky—it still required human operation. What efficiency was this?

Even the machine guns on aircraft were manually operated, exactly like World War II aerial combat.

Had this world's technological development gone astray?

Had they not developed artificial intelligence?

Hmm?

The sudden enormous light beam from space that penetrated the atmosphere to the ground created an explosion that shocked Black Cat's soul.

This must be what a nuclear explosion was like.

The most deadly was one that hit near him, destroying that factory, with a terrifying sandstorm shock wave sweeping toward him.

So, the livestream almost went black, becoming chaotic and causing great concern.

However, since it was still streaming, it meant the person was still online, still alive.

Finally, when the image cleared, he had survived once again.

But his second set of power armor, which had been relatively new, now had some problems.

It seemed it couldn't withstand a second devastation.

This shock wave had made the surroundings even more hellish.

Hmm?

He seemed to be staring intently at the sky. What was happening?

The sky—!

Ugh!

Super-super-super-super extremely bad!

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