"Fawn, Nyx and Nagumo are dead, and our casualties have already surpassed 50%" Jake sighed reluctantly as he looked at the numbers through one of his abilities.
"Isn't that more or less what we anticipated? Then why are you sighing?" Viktor asked, noticing his state.
"Not more or less, it is exactly what we anticipated. Even so, losing Nyx, Nagumo, Fawn and more than 50% in just half an hour is insane. Knowing something will happen and seeing it happen are two completely different things.
Even though we made sure to check the situation beforehand and came when they were at their weakest, they are still completely annihilating us."
Among the various artifacts they had prepared for this situation, one was used while designing the attack plan, and its function was to calculate probabilities.
This exact moment when they were attacking was when the chances of success were highest, although neither Jake nor Viktor nor anyone else knew why, they still decided to attack and trust it.
But it was not just that, in reality, they were also driven by fear, at this moment their chances of success were 75%, but looking further into the future, their chances would never rise above 3% after this.
As much as he wished otherwise, Jake had no idea what would happen, since he did not know anyone with clairvoyance abilities, but he knew that today was their last opportunity. After this, something would happen that would make it impossible to defeat Lucifer and hell.
They prepared with everything they could, using various artifacts that had been kept as treasures for generations, but even though they knew they would suffer enormous losses, seeing it in person shattered their view of the world.
As someone who had been in contact with the supernatural world his entire life, seeing someone who had only been in contact with it for just over a month, and not even him but his subordinates, be so powerful, was like watching the sky fall, something completely illogical and unnatural.
"Stop getting lost in your thoughts, it is time for the next part of the plan" Viktor reminded him.
"Alright" Jake nodded, his eyes glowing light blue for a second.
All the humans on the battlefield felt a message in their minds at that moment and stopped fighting, retreating immediately.
The demons, although they did not understand the situation, regrouped, sensing that something was about to happen.
Next to Jake, a door opened in the space behind him, taking the form of a rectangular light blue projection several meters tall and many more in length.
The ground began to tremble from the movement as several enormous vehicles emerged from it.
In reality, they were not vehicles themselves, but mobile launch platforms.
Ten in total, each carrying a missile capable of destroying at least a quarter of Kaito's territory.
Jake smiled confidently, his grin arrogant.
"Now, how will they handle this?"
...
"What do we do? Do we activate the vibration device?" Kirito asked while observing the missile launchers.
"No, remember that during activation everyone linked to the territory will vibrate, so we will not be able to damage them either.
It takes a few minutes to prepare before activating, if they launch the missiles in sequence instead of all at once, they will notice the weakness" Asuna denied.
If they launched all the missiles at once, then simply vibrating the territory would be enough to avoid it.
But if they were launched in sequence, keeping the device active would make them unable to attack, something that would quickly be discovered and used against them.
And due to the delay in activation time, they could not simply turn it on and off very quickly.
While Kirito and Asuna were thinking about what to do, Mashiro, who was just observing the entire battlefield from the sky thinking about what to do, saw this and came up with an idea.
She descended straight to the ground next to Kirito and spoke.
"I have an idea"
...
After the mobile missile launchers arrived, Jake did not wait for them to prepare countermeasures.
He immediately looked at the nearest operator and nodded.
With only one job to do, the operator knew what to do, he immediately pressed a single simple red button in front of him, one that carried devastating power.
The missile carried by the vehicle was launched immediately toward the territory.
Several demons positioned themselves in the way trying to stop it, but it was useless, it was too fast for powerful attacks that could damage it, such as the "erase" of the Bael clan, to hit it.
Jake watched with satisfaction as, despite all obstacles, the missile continued its path, finally connecting with the territory and exploding with such intensity that half the territory was caught in the blast while the light expanded for kilometers beyond.
However, Jake was not happy, besides the sound of the explosion he heard it, the sound of something vibrating at high speed, the sound was so loud that it was clear that whatever it was, it was large.
Knowing that something was happening, Jake connected with all the humans on the battlefield.
Tens of thousands of fields of vision appeared before him, Jake did not worry about the overload of information, consciously ignoring anyone who saw nothing or who was injured and weak.
He focused on those who were already within a range where it was possible to see or those who had abilities that allowed them to see despite the situation.
And there he saw it, the entire territory that had been attacked was vibrating in place, transforming into a blurred version of itself where every attack passed through it without touching it.
Just one second after Jake saw this, the effect ended and the territory returned to normal as if nothing had happened.
"What happened?" Viktor asked upon seeing the territory intact once the dust cloud disappeared.
"They vibrated."
"They vibrated?"
"Yes, they moved the entire territory so fast that their atoms fit into the spaces between the atoms of everything else.
In short, they made the territory intangible for a moment" Jake explained, recognizing the effect as one of Lucifer's signature attacks. And since it was such a common attack from him, they had obviously studied how it worked.
"So they also have useful artifacts" Viktor said, assuming no one would have such an ability, however, this was also a good thing. "Fire another one, I want to see if they can activate that device again."
Jake nodded, thinking the same, there was no way such an artifact did not have limits.
Immediately, another missile was launched.
The process was identical to the previous one, but this time Jake made sure to link his vision with the others from the beginning to observe the situation as best as possible.
This time he saw it clearly, this time the town did not vibrate, however, he could see pink lights through the windows of every house, which he recognized as massive chained defensive magic.
But Jake smiled, because besides that, he also saw how some of them broke, clearly having received the attack.
The same went for the territory, Jake saw how everything remained intact, however, unlike the previous time many buildings had slight cracks and shook from the explosion, which proved that the attack was received, not like before, when the attack simply did not touch the territory or its inhabitants.
"What happened?" Viktor asked, although seeing the territory intact again gave him a bad feeling, seeing Jake's satisfied smile made him think something good was happening.
"They can no longer use the artifact from before."
"Then what happened?"
"It seems they created some kind of linked spell among all the inhabitants to protect them, but some of them broke, it will not last much longer.
As for the territory, it received the attack and was damaged, there are no materials that resistant in their territory, so it is most likely that their territory has the anti absolute trait," Jake explained.
"Then... fire another one" Viktor said, sharing his smile, but Jake stopped him.
"There is no need, we finished testing them, they no longer have the artifact that avoids damage and neither their inhabitants nor their buildings will withstand much more."
"So you want me to stop sending missiles?" Viktor said, confused.
"Quite the opposite, let's send all of them at once" Jake said with the same arrogant smile he had shown so many times before.
Immediately, the eight remaining missiles were launched at the same time toward the center of Kaito's territory, right where the Lord's mansion was located, and in the basement, the territory core, which if destroyed would cause both the Lord and his subordinates to be expelled from Gaia forever.
"Ha... hahaha. And now what...?" Jake said confidently as he watched the missiles advance.
But halfway there, his eyes widened.
"W-what the hell is that?"
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