Chapter Ninety-One: What We Fought For?

The land was devastated, the vast forests were charred, the blue rivers and lakes were littered with dead fish carcasses, and the air was filled with the foul smell of rotting corpses and residual gunsmoke. Everywhere there were huge craters and radial blast marks, criss-crossing scorch marks left by the strafing of particle cannons, and the wreckage of ships, large and small, scattered in all directions.

If you look at it from a bird's-eye view near the ground, Hanina at this moment looks like a half-rotten apple.

As the sun rose, a long huge black shadow was pulled up on the ground, and when I looked up, this behemoth was a floating island floating in the sky, carrying a huge floating island of Hanina's imperial city.

Auston stood on the rampart, looking down at the ruined earth below, his brow furrowed, but there was no sadness in his eyes.

On that day, the GY fleet that covered the sky appeared in the sky, and Hanina was completely destroyed after the great change, and there was no effective countermeasure at all, if it was common sense, that day would be the end of Hanina.

However, GY's actions were very different from usual, not only did he not attack with all his strength at the first time, but also gave up his absolute air superiority, and actually lowered his ground troops to engage in regular combat with Hanina's guards.

But even so, because GY burned the war on most of the planet, although the guards fought hard, they also had to shoulder the task of covering civilians, and the defense line could only shrink again and again, and towns were abandoned.

More than a dozen towns were destroyed, a large number of civilians were reduced to cannon fodder on the battlefield, according to post-war statistics, this battle, which lasted less than a day, directly disabled Hanina's infrastructure, roads were cut off, bridges were destroyed, large areas of the original landscape were burned, and the heaviest losses were not the combat troops but civilians, and the tragic scene that Auston and Loclier saw at that time was only the tip of the iceberg.

It is interesting to note that GY's main offensive targets seem to have been in densely populated towns, while places such as military strongholds have not been affected much.

Auston's brow furrowed even more, and in the case of absolute superiority, instead of destroying Hanina's only military force directly from the air, he used ground troops to attack civilians......

Coupled with their deliberate destruction of the road, what exactly did GY want to do?

The Imperial City floated in the clouds, and the cold air currents in the sky blew Auston's robes into a hunting sound, and it is not an exaggeration to call the scene in front of him a miracle.

But in that case, until the continent is transformed into an atmosphere and ecosphere suitable for living things, the Imperial City will become a work of art that can only be viewed at night.

But now the situation is that it will never leave the low altitude of Hanina's gravitational circle, leaving a huge piece of land floating in the air as if it defies gravity! Although the air here is thin and the temperature difference between day and night is very large, with a small measure, this can be a real city in the sky!

As far as Auston knows, it is impossible for a technological civilization like Hanina, a magical civilization like the ancient elves who are proficient in occultism, or a sacred realm like the Colandis system, to stay in the air for such a large piece of land for a long time, let alone make it the norm.

If this alone is a miracle, then it is not enough to repel GY's army in such a desperate situation.

In fact, this continent floating in the air is not just floating in the wind, it can be manipulated!

The "Star Net" left by Iru is not only a god's perspective that can see the entire planet, in fact, it was built on Hanina's original defensive field, but it has changed the shape of this energy position.

To put it simply, the original energy field is like a balloon that has been blown up, wrapping the entire planet inside, but this balloon is not made of rubber, but is composed of constantly flowing energy, unless it is continuously attacked by more than half of the energy contained in the energy field, otherwise this energy field will never be penetrated.

Now, this energy field has turned into a net, Hanina is like a fish in a fishing net, a net full of holes certainly can't defend against attacks from the outside, but it brings more magical functions!

The "energy threads" that weave this web seem to be intelligent.

The density and size of the grid can be adjusted arbitrarily, from nanoscale to more than ten kilometers can be completed in an instant, and these lines are like railroad tracks, carrying the imperial city above to move at will!

And this movement is not a physical displacement in the usual sense, but a real spatial transfer!

Hanina's imperial city is not simply a political and cultural symbol, but also a super military fortress! Its only weakness was its inability to move, but that only weakness was no longer there when the fortress escaped gravity and could even teleport to the airspace of any part of the planet Hanina.

It's a miracle to make the imperial city float, let it move... It's a miracle!

In that day's battle, when Auston had such a powerful artifact in his hands, the outcome was already sealed.

No matter how large GY's battleship group is, it can't cover the entire Hanina's sky, unless the planet is completely destroyed, the mobile fortress floating in this air is a moat that no enemy can overcome!

The battle ended very quickly, and GY retreated without hesitation after paying the price of two main ships.

Only Hanina, who was baptized by the fire of war, was left behind.

After the war, Auston did not delay for a moment, and immediately issued an order to lift all the prohibitions in the imperial city, except for some very secret areas, which were originally closed to the general public, were cleared and used as refugee shelters.

Although the fighting lasted for a short time, the damage caused was enormous, especially against civilians.

Wailing everywhere, husbands have lost their wives, children have lost their mothers, old people with white hair send black haired people, that scene is simply more like Shura Hell than a cruel battlefield.

The guards were all dispatched to gather the refugees little by little, and with the super mobility of the imperial city, this large-scale refugee containment project was completed in just ten days.

But war is not only physically harmful, but also mental. Looking at the refugees' cold and empty eyes, Auston felt powerless for the first time, and he began to wonder if Hanina could really pull herself together.

Today, the imperial general rarely did not devote himself to his duties, just stood on the city wall in a daze, and before he knew it, the sun was setting, there was no sunlight, and the temperature in the sky plummeted.

A guard walked over, still holding a cloak in his hand.

"General, it's cold."

Auston hummed faintly, his eyes still looking down at the bottom that he couldn't see clearly because of the lack of light.

"What are we fighting for, you say?"

The guard froze, he didn't expect the general to ask him a question.

"Naturally, for the glory of the Empire!" After a short period of thought, this answer rushed out of his mouth, this is the first principle that every Imperial soldier is told after enlisting in the army, and it has long been imprinted in the heart of every Hanina soldier.

"Glory—" Auston narrowed his eyes, pondering the word for a long time......