The Martial Unity

RUMBLE!!!!!

The very fabric of space and time shook as the two armies collided with each other in a messy maelstrom of chaos. Neither side was accustomed to fighting the other side, certainly not the forces of Gaia, who didn’t have as much experience with space battle as their opponents, but had also never fought jellyfish-like entities.

The laminar integuments were certainly powerful and more adept at maneuvering around space, but they, too, appeared to be caught off guard by how powerful their opponents were. Especially the Martial Sages and Martial Masters who, for their size, were able to produce a truly astronomical amount of power.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMM!!!

With a single blow of her fist, Amare wiped out an entire legion of laminar spaceships. Her body and mind moved as one as she leveraged her body-consciousness to manipulate and permeate power better. A wave of laminar spacecraft charged in her direction, inflicting an onslaught of blows against her, threatening to wipe her out.

And yet, they didn’t stand a chance.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMM!!!

With a single blow, she wiped all of them out, only to find herself face to face with even more laminar integuments, spacecrafts, and even a warship that trained its bubble-like guns at her, unleashing an onslaught of attacks in her direction.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMM!!!

Flashes of light emerged from the laminar integuments, an expression of shock, as they saw a woman emerge from the explosion unfazed. She heaved a deep breath, pressing against the very fabric of space as she herself forth, teleporting through their ranks to destroy them with just the slightest impacts.

BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!

She caused them all to crumble effortlessly, leading a Martial Artist charge into the ranks of the laminar army. The Martial Sages and Masters followed her lead, aggressively burrowing into the laminar army through the opening she had created. Bodhisattva Maitreyi activated her Heavenly Step of Boundless Light, becoming a boundless stream of light that allowed her to fly through space and destroy her opponents one by one. The Reverend of Reckoning swarmed the largest laminar warship targets, cracking them and taking them down one by one with effortless ease. The Transcendent Candidates proved to be remarkably unstoppable. The space infantry of the laminar army, composed of laminar integuments, seemed to be completely unable to halt their onslaught.

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The Martial Sages ran into more resistance than the Transcendent Candidates, but even that was more due to unfamiliarity with space warfare, rather than major impediments offered by the laminar army. Kane’s green eyes sharpened as he charged forth, wielding his daggers fiercely, turning them into arcs of destruction.

SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT!

He sliced and diced open laminar integuments like they were jellyfish, cracking open their spacecrafts like they weren’t even remotely able to stop his onslaught of power.

The younger and junior Martial Sages among the vast army ran into more resistance due to their general inexperience with the Sage Realm. They didn’t manipulate space as easily as their older and ‘natural’ peers, combined with the same unfamiliarity with outer space combat.

“Rgh!” Fae gritted her teeth as she experienced an onslaught of attacks converging on her, unable to get out of it. Things like laminar war crafts and warships were extremely good at mid to long-range combat, making it difficult to escape once anybody got stuck in them. The tachyon condensate beam technology that they used was much more powerful than the laser technology of the true world. SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT!

Kane turned into a storm of slices, wiping out the warships that trained their onslaught on Fae.

“Are you okay?” he asked with a hint of concern.

She nodded with a hardening expression, displeased that she had needed to be helped. “Let’s continue. We must destroy as many of these ships as possible. We cannot allow those warships to get past our army.”

Indeed, it was the destructive power of the warships that was the biggest threat. The endless swarm of laminar integuments and the smaller spacecrafts were certainly a problem, but they couldn’t threaten the destruction of Gaia like the giant warships. None of them knew what the exact limitation was or how many they would need to destroy before being assured of Gaia’s survival.

There were a profound number of unknowns for a war of this scale; they still had no idea what their enemy even was. The strange jellyfish-like aliens seemed unfathomably different from anything they had ever seen before, colorful in their depths with light flickering from deep within them.

All they knew was that they wanted to destroy Gaia.

That was not acceptable, as far as they were concerned. Their son, Runark, was at home in Gaia, stomping his feet due to his inability to fight alongside his parents. And of course, the trillions of people who lived in Gaia.

They fought for all of them as well.

It wasn’t just them, either.

The giants of Gaia charged forth, barreling through space as they unleashed tremendous destruction across the laminar army, contending with the destructive onslaught of the armies better than anybody else. They had turned their flesh into shields, protecting Gaia herself from the destruction that the laminar warships unleashed with their titanic tachyon condensate beams.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMM!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMM!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMM!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMM!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMM!!!

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It would have been safe to say that without the giants creating a shield-like army front, much of the destruction unleashed by the laminar integuments would have struck Gaia. Their unique contribution was protecting their home world with the invincibility of their bodies.

They weren’t the only ones who made unique contributions, of course. The dwarven mechs and warships were the only crafts that could take on the laminar ships. The latter derived from even higher technology and even greater sources of energy than those of dwarven civilization, much to their chagrin, but the dwarven crafts had something that they didn’t.

The power of the dwarven Path of Creation.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMM!!!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMM!!!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMM!!!

Despite being cleanly blasted with unavoidable attacks that moved faster than the speed of light, the dwarven warships remained intact. Each warship was unique and different from every other warship, displaying a level of individuality that was unprecedented in a war.

But nonetheless, they were able to equalize, even if barely, the much larger army of second-tier warships and warcrafts while the giants protected Gaia from the heaviest of hitters.