Lord Shadow

This kind of carpet bombing on a civilian residence....This kind of bombing is not allowed.

Even more because it is a civilian environment where the bomb is being detonated.

However, Azief wonders how much is it that Wang Jian wanted to attack civilian or maybe he attacked because he knew Sasha would stop him with her soldier.

It is not so much that he wanted to bomb the city.

It is more like he wanted to restrain Sasha soldiers in the sky.

Keep them busy in the sky, keep them busy in the ground, in the sea, in the tunnels.

Fight them in all of these fronts and determine victory in battle.

Probably because he knows Sasha would send people to stop the bombs, that he had bombed the area

However, there is always a risk to these kind of bluff. And that is if Sasha did not care and allow the bombing, Wang Jian would really have no face to meet with Death Monarch later.

War is a soldier business. The civilians that are not a part of it should not be dragged into it. The ruling power and the invading power should not force the people that do not want to be dragged into it.

There are heroes and villains in war, but as much as one could, one should not involve the innocent.

In this world, there is people like Death Monarch, Raymond, and Jean and these three are quite keen in enforcing these kind of laws.

So, these laws after being enshrined in the World Council is observed by all attacking forces.

If Wang Jian had levied massacre upon the common people, Sasha did not need to win the war, she just simply needs to endure and wait until Death Monarch return. After he returns, Death Monarch himself would end Wang Jian because of his transgression

Azief however think more deeply about this matter.

he knows there is other reason for things to turns out like this

Was it really Wang Jian that gives the order? Or maybe it is just one of the generals under Wang Jian that gives the order because they are frustrated with the lack of action or the lack of progress?

One could not tell.

Of course, they might report this and record this later but Azief like very ruler knows one thing about war.

The report could be distorted, could be lost , could even be shredded or changed even before it reached Wang Jian.

And then later, if Wang Jian met him, he also probably would not know to answer. War is like this. It is easy to start one, it is hard to end it and it is hard to control it.

Great leaders could control their armies but sometimes, when the prize is too tempting, people forget their place and their measures.

Even more so when the people below thought they are doing it for the good of their leader.

The first thing that dies in a war is the truth

He only sighed and look at the sky

"They are not in an easy fight too"

But those who are fighting in the sky either uses energy shield to make sure the bombs didn’t land on the ground or uses their swordsmanship to cleave these bombs into pieces, causing them to explode in the atmosphere.

As for laser and plasma beams, some would simply sues the shield on their backs or those who are stronger simply uses their body to tank it.

But there would always be some bombs that they would miss. And one of that bomb landed only one feet away from Azief.

And the moment that bomb landed, it exploded with the force of a nuclear bomb

"Crazy soldiers" Azief curses.

These bombs emanated nuclear bomb force because it is a nuclear bomb.

And Azief is standing only one feet away from this detonation.

If Azief is a mortal without power, he would already be turned into atom particulate.

But instead, the fire spread out.

the force is about to be unleashed in the cities and the plume smokes would surely rises when this explosion is finished.

But in that moment, right before this explosion even reaches ten feet, powerful energy descended on this place and time was reversed in this area.

This time reversal affected everything around this area except Azief who is still standing where was without any changes.

The time reversal did not even sense him and so he is out of that time trap

"Time trap....No, time shield"

"I never thought Sasha had improved on it. I guess she did listen to what I was saying" Azief could not help but smirk. He remembers he once mentioned that the Chrono study of the Order of Thinker has merits.

But Sasha at that time dismissed it. Not because she did not think time magic and time essence could not be used.

She dismissed it because she believes it would be too dangerous and such study could lead to a singularity event.

"I guess all she lack was a motivation to study it. Once a motivation is given, even she who objected to the technology developed it to such extent" Azief chuckles.

Using time as a method of defines and attack has always been complicated. Because time is one of the hardest laws to master.

And it is even harder to control.

Even though time essence could be trapped not many would dare use it or attach it to a weapon or to a shield because of how unstable this magic is.

One wrong move and you could open up a portal to a different world and dimension.

And if that is not enough you could even create a reality destabilization event

Azief could guess what Sasha had done. Since they could implement a time magic in large area, they could use it sparingly.

Probably if any nuclear bombs or energy bombs managed to find its way to the ground, this mechanics would activated by itself.

"A clever move" Azief was unfazed.

All the damages created by the nuclear bomb is reversed.

Almost like nothing had happened.

Of course, the desolate ruins is not reversed

After all it happened before the nuclear bomb.

It is not the worst-case scenario. Sasha probably intended to make sure that such time magic is only used when facing desperate attack like this.

Nuclear bombs hurled from the skies.

And nuclear bomb is not even the most terrifying bombs that the military could unleash upon the people

Probably right now, Wang Jian and his forces are analysing the time mechanisms and is already formulating methods to try to dismantle it.

Azief dust of the dust on his shoulders and he then walk again. This time he walk a further away. Inside to the capital cities.

There is walls after walls in front of the city.

Concentric walls has been raised up.

Seven walls that protect seven sectors of the city in a concentric manner

No matter from where you attack, there is seven concentric walls that you must breach if you uses the frontal assault.

But even if you attack from the skies, these walls, thick, large and wide that houses the soldiers of the capitals and warriors and generals of the capital, each walls could defend any threat from the skies, from beneath the earth and even from the front.

And in each concentric walls there are cities and villages.

When Azief was there, there is not that many walls

The walls that is there are purely mostly just decorations. None that surround the cities and the villages.

When he was there the capital need not so many walls. This must be the concentric method of defines.

One could attack from the skies but it is not like the imperial forces lack aerial forces.

Just because the military have Battlestar, did not mean the imperial guards did not have one. And Sina probably knowing how much the skies are vulnerable probably set up her own defence in the sky

Azief could see there is a few floating air bases above each of the seven walls.

These bases floated above the cities with the size of a mountain.

Their shadows shaded the city from the sunlight and each of these floating abuses would be able to launch tens of hounds of drones, elite fighter jets, Pegasus cavalry and many other aerial forces.

The one that goes fight is the drones.

Not only they are faster, lighter , agile and dangerous, they also would not add up to the casualties of the soldiers.

Artificial intelligence of the most barebones system is put in these systems.

The reason is simple.

In some of the worlds that the world power agents had visited, they saw for themselves what AI had done.

In some worlds a new breed of entrenched nobility as born.

Technocrat that introduced these technologies to the masses become new slave owners

These technocrats then levied their powers and made humanity extinct simply because of greed.

In some other worlds, it created an AI insurrection almost toppling an intergalactic empire and made their own race of people extinct.

In many of the cases, the intelligence turns on its own master.

In the few events they did not, the master or the creator of such intelligence had to spend time making sure that the relevant new laws and reforms could be accepted by both the race that created the machine and the machine itself.

Which is time consuming.

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