Two hundred kilometers above ground, a missile flew under the cover of the night. It was over a hundred meters long, more than ten meters wide, and flew twenty times faster than the speed of sound. 0

Hundreds of meters of gold-and-blue flames trailed behind it, scattering powerful winds and transparent shockwaves.0

Despite having an insane velocity and being designed to strike targets 10,000 kilometers away, the missile barely made a sound.2

Runes etched on its surface shimmered continuously, keeping the missile quiet by reducing air resistance and absorbing sound waves. It flew through the sea of clouds like a spectral phantom, subtly adjusting its trajectory to avoid forbidden zones thousands of kilometers ahead.0

Within just over twenty minutes, the hydrogen bomb launched from Abyssal City closed in on a cluster of volcanoes. The flames at its tail shifted, and the missile’s nose angled downward, piercing the thick clouds in the blink of an eye.0

As the missile left behind a massive hole hundreds of meters wide, the Lava Giant...0