Chapter 259 - Chapter 259: 206, An Unprecedented Event Through the Ages, the Taboo Item ACE-002 Sees the Light of Day Again! (A long chapter of 10,000 words asking for monthly tickets!)_3
Chapter 259: 206, An Unprecedented Event Through the Ages, the Taboo Item ACE-002 Sees the Light of Day Again! (A long chapter of 10,000 words asking for monthly tickets!)_3
“No need,” Qing Wan shook his head, “they won’t intervene in this matter, nor can they. Moreover, they will need to clean up Prison 18 afterward. Let’s leave it to the professionals.”
Qing Wan was very aware that the Contraindicated courts targeted only dying Transcendents, Taboo items, and Taboo Lands. The sudden arrival of these people was probably because they anticipated a large number of Transcendent deaths in Prison 18.
If the flesh and blood of Transcendents nourished this land, then in a few decades, City 18 would become the third largest Taboo Land in the Federation.
The Taboo Land formed by the death of just one Demigod, Uncle Li Dong, was frightening enough.
There had been precedents before where cities fell and became Taboo Lands.
The Federation had a total of 25 cities, each gathering a vast number of residents, with every city having a population in the tens of millions.
The destruction of a city was a cost the Federation couldn’t afford.
Therefore, few bothered to really manage the Contraindicated courts, as these individuals had been scavengers for hundreds of years, rarely interfering in other matters.
What was unexpected was that the leader of this generation of the Contraindicated courts, ‘March,’ came in person.
It seemed that the other party also took this matter seriously, worried that the death of Uncle Li Dong would cause irreversible environmental damage.
Soon, the Contraindicated courts halted, and these hundreds of people stood quietly in the snowstorm, gazing at the vast white snow and Prison 18 on the horizon.
The black prison, located on the white Snowfield, appeared particularly stark and lonely.
Suddenly, Qing Wan felt that this group from the Contraindicated courts resembled crows or vultures, as they seemed to appear wherever many Transcendents were going to die.
After the Transcendents died, they would use special Taboo items to collect the bodies.
Thinking this, Qing Wan felt that the Contraindicated courts might need to change their emblem; they should replace the flame with a crow.
No one knew why the Contraindicated courts could foresee the deaths of Transcendents every time, a capability that made them as mysterious as the Taboo items they collected.
At that moment, a communications officer said, “The Garrison Forces of City 18 request to speak with the commander. They are asking why our unit has suddenly entered the airspace of City 18 and whether there is operational approval from the Federal Group Army Command. If there is no approval, they request that we withdraw 80 kilometers away from City 18.”
Cradling his arms, Qing Wan stood confidently in front of the Holographic Sand Table and calmly said, “Tell him to get lost.”
“Received.”
Qing Wan said to his deputy, “Conduct the final check.”
“The Divine Scepter satellite is now in the designated orbit at an altitude of 800 kilometers.”
“Kinetics have been calculated.”
“Scepter No. has completed guidance, has locked onto the destruction target.”
Someone brought over a briefcase, opening it to reveal two small keys and a screen for entering a password.
Qing Wan silently unlocked the case but hesitated before pressing the launch button.
The deputy beside Qing Wan looked at him, “Commander, shall we launch?”
Countdown 4:31:12.
It was already night.
Qing Wan glanced at the precise time inside the command post, “Wait another minute, not early, not late.”
In the command post, the tactical staff paused their activities, as if time had stopped here.
Everyone needed to do nothing more than to wait quietly for the Divine Scepter to fall from space.
All eyes in the command post silently watched the electronic clock, counting down every second in their minds.
This was the first time in Federation history that an orbital kinetic weapon, fittingly named Divine Scepter, was launched to slay a God.
Everyone in the command post felt they were witnessing a new chapter of history.
A minute might seem very brief, passing in the blink of an eye while playing a game.
Yet, it also seemed lengthy enough to dry the eyes of everyone in the command post.
Countdown 4:30:00.
“Launch,” Qing Wan pressed the red button in the case, and the signal sped towards space, where a satellite above the celestial vault slowly activated.
The Divine Scepter satellite, with a name extremely similar to the Scepter Sky Fortress.
800 kilometers high, deep in the boundless space.
This was the flying altitude of many meteorological satellites.
Behind the Divine Scepter satellite shone the brilliant galaxy, and ahead was the beautiful blue planet.
Blue represented the ocean, and the planet’s surface was also cloaked with swirling clouds, making it look as though there was another ocean above the sea.
This small satellite in space was like a tiny solitary boat, seemingly motionless in relative speed.
Suddenly, air transmission mechanisms around the cylindrical main body of the satellite began to completely disassemble excess structures, throwing them piece by piece into space.
It was like a white cocoon suddenly bursting open, revealing the missile core within.
The white missile, adorned with a black ginkgo leaf emblem of Qing’s Family.
The Divine Scepter satellite no longer needed a heat control system, power system, attitude control system, orbital control system, radio telemetry system, nor those two long solar panels.
It shed all burdens, traveling light.
The next second, the Divine Scepter satellite transformed into Divine Scepter missile, its tail emitting a massive flame, beginning to slowly advance towards the blue planet.
Though this propulsion started off slow, it quickly picked up speed.
No one had imagined that a star capable of decimating lands lay concealed above this celestial vault!