"…Are we truly going to lose the strait today?!" the general muttered in dread, his voice trembling as if the words themselves were poison on his tongue.
Ruuuumble—
The ground behind him convulsed once more as yet another wave of blazing meteors plummeted from the heavens, striking like divine hammers. In the span of a heartbeat, more than a thousand soldiers were torn apart, their screams drowned in the deafening roar of falling stars. The acrid smell of charred flesh and iron filled the air, and a suffocating wave of dust and heat rolled across the battlefield.
