Spell Return: The Wheel of Time

Chapter 393: The End of the Game
The Neon government was declared dead.

Even if it actually still had some people left, it had been forced to accelerate to the point of complete destruction amid the storm of public opinion and condemnation stirred up by the White Eagle, because the White Eagle now needed a more solid excuse to send more military forces to Neon.

Unlike the forces that had tested losses in the past, the destruction of the White Eagle's fleet in Neon territorial waters this time was enough to make it feel very painful and... terrified. When those senior executives witnessed the real culprit behind the huge losses that caused them to suffer, and how he almost destroyed 80% of the warships by himself, the fear of the absolute destructive power emerged uncontrollably.

But it is impossible to stop the military action against Neon. Advancing may not guarantee survival, but retreating will definitely lead to death. It is better to say that the enemy has demonstrated even more amazing strength, so that White Eagle is now more eager for the power called "spell".

Think about it, the East Country has already quietly mastered that kind of power. Even Japan is said to have had this power for thousands of years. In the past few hundred years, spells were weak and could not withstand guns and bullets, so they did not make any waves. But now it is different. Look at that kind of god-like power.

The opportunity for the change of times has arrived. Those who cannot keep up with it will only be abandoned and become dead bones in a tomb. Knowing this, how could the White Eagle just sit there and wait for death? For this reason, let alone a local war, according to the most intense budget, even if it means launching a war that sweeps the world, the White Eagle will not hesitate.

This is probably the reason why the East Country agreed to make a deal with the White Eagle. A trapped beast should not be put into an absolute dead end. There should always be a 'direction' left for it to breathe and escape, so that it can be slowly bled to death, right?

There are actually only two paths before White Eagle now. One is to continue to increase investment in military forces and hope that the sorcerers or people with super powers that they have begun to recruit can be put to use. However, after this battle, this path is basically blocked.

So there is only the second and final way left: the end of human weapons - nuclear weapons.

In fact, it is difficult to say whether the total annihilation of the army in this battle was calculated by the White Eagle leaders, because this situation has given them a perfect excuse to start a war and activate weapons of mass destruction.

After all, apart from the fact that they were the first to announce and exclude the large-scale military, in reality it was White Eagle that suffered the terrorist attack first and lost a large fleet. It can be said that White Eagle has rarely become a true 'victim'.

Therefore, when the White Eagle's nuclear weapons activation statement was released, the wave of opposition was not as great as expected. First of all, the White Eagle's "allies" would naturally not object. Not to mention that the White Eagle already had a legitimate excuse, even if it was black, they could open their eyes and say it was white if necessary.

What's more, they also want to take advantage of White Eagle's actions to touch this superpower. In the final analysis, the forces led by East Country are actually opposed to White Eagle's approach. However, for some considerations, the East Country's officials did not issue a severe statement of opposition, and most of the voices are spontaneous remarks from the public.

And this is naturally impossible to stop as White Eagle is determined to drop a nuclear bomb on Japan. Of course, East Country is not doing nothing. It is also necessary to reassure the people and show some strength and dispatch appropriately. After all, Japan is close enough to East Country, what if there is any "accident"?

However, in secret, White Eagle and East Country reached some deals again. In order to implement this plan, White Eagle promised not to use hydrogen bombs or other nuclear weapons with excessive equivalent. The target of attack was temporarily set as one or several cities in Japan.

And the entire process of launching nuclear weapons will be shared with the East Country, including its delivery trajectory and target. This is to demonstrate sincerity and the heart of the East Country. After all, one or even two or three nuclear bombs exploding at your doorstep will make anyone think too much.

If the East Country does not agree, White Eagle will never drop nuclear weapons on Japan, because if they cannot reach a consensus, then such an action would be almost the same as declaring war on the East Country, and a nuclear war.

However, what surprised Bai Ying was that Dongguo agreed without much difficulty. Although those conditions and exchanges would have made Bai Ying extremely painful in the past, they could only be considered a bit frivolous at this time.

What Baiying didn't know and couldn't know was that Dongguo knew much more about Neon, or more precisely, the sorcerer known as the 'God Lord' and the forces under his command, than Baiying did.

First of all, there was the battle situation that day when the White Eagle Fleet was completely annihilated. The White Eagle could only observe some final results through satellites and other means, while the East Country could "see" more specific information through their long-standing and diverse means.

Secondly, there is the advantage of the long history of the East Country. In another layer of "historical records", after the current East Country monks have set their goals, they have found some scattered records about the "Lord God" among them. Combined with the information obtained from Japan, a conclusion has been placed in front of the East Country monks.

That 'Lord God' was a powerful magician who ruled Neon in the past. At that time, the Eastern Kingdom did not interfere with or pay much attention to the outside world due to its own reasons. Neon was just a small place that changed its ruler. People mentioned him because he was also a monk.

However, this has brought some intelligence advantages to the East Country today. Unlike White Eagle's anxious desire, the East Country first of all has its own heritage in this regard. Even with the existence of "Jedi Tiantong", after thousands of years of development, here, spells, or to use a localized name - Tao and Fa, have developed to the point where it is almost another system.

It's like the degree of 'relying on technology' and 'relying on mutation'. For example, the thunder method that is famous in the East is not some kind of Taoist method of controlling thunder and lightning, but an application of spell power/mana. If you want to make an analogy, it is probably similar to the black flash technique. However, compared to the black flash, there is no probability in the thunder method. It has its own complete system and learning method. Although the difficulty should not be underestimated, as long as you really master it, you can hit it 100% every time, but the specific power will vary from person to person.

In the history of the Eastern Kingdom, there were cultivators who only practiced thunder magic and perfected it to the highest level. Even without the innate Tao and the Dharma, they were still able to reach the pinnacle.

However, the reason why this kind of inspirational example has this effect is that there are so few people who can do this. Such geniuses are rarer than other ordinary geniuses. After all, everyone works hard and has talent. Isn't it an objective fact that people with better innate "destiny" have greater achievements?

Therefore, the monks of the Eastern Country could better understand everything that happened in the Neon Sea that day. This was the first time they watched the perfect performance of the "Avenue of Cosmic Light" clearly and comprehensively.

As long as you pay attention to many things, you can actually know a lot of information. At least the monks in the East Country can now confirm that the man, titled "God Lord", was the monk who ruled the past two eras of Neon a thousand years ago - Shen Yuanyi. No matter what realm he has reached, no matter what title he is given, he is absolutely at the top and a true "seeker of the way".

And because of his "Great Avenue of Cosmic Light", even opponents of the same realm would probably not be his opponents. As for the advantage in numbers? In a battle of this level, the number of people is just a negligible number, nothing more. Didn't you see how quickly the White Eagle fleet was destroyed? Even if there were some demons helping it, most of them were not caused by that one person.

Well, to be more practical, even the East Country does not think that its own cultivators can go out and subdue that person. Of course, because of the existence of the 'Jedi Tiantong', if the other party sets foot on the territory of the East Country, it is naturally unlikely to do the same thing as in White Eagle or Neon. But we must be prepared for a rainy day and be prepared for danger in times of peace. Facing an extremely powerful enemy, we must have a countermeasure. Even if this 'enemy' is not an enemy yet, who can predict the future? Can we use a sentence of 'high probability of not happening' to evade the safety of tens of millions of people in the East Country?

If they want to come up with a real countermeasure, they need to truly understand the full strength of that "God Lord". That's right, the Eastern Country believes that the man had not yet displayed all his strength when he destroyed the White Eagle Fleet. The reason is very simple, because they have not yet seen the means by which he reversed the light of the universe.

If even this level is not forced out, then that war... can probably only be called a one-sided crushing battle. Maybe it's just a warm-up or a greeting?
Honestly speaking, the relevant think tanks have not been able to come to an accurate conclusion on all the situations that he has promoted and implemented. What we can know now is that he probably wants to adapt to the situation and promote the revival of Taoism and Fa, but for some reason he seems to be in a hurry and his methods are a bit drastic.

As for the current situation, they have come to several conclusions, but they are still unable to determine their true purpose. However, since they cannot see the subsequent chess moves clearly, they just need to make the current and next few moves first.

White Eagle is a 'chess piece' that was delivered to the door. Although no one knows why the 'Lord God' would send people to White Eagle to cause such a big mess, perhaps he knows the existence of the 'Jedi Tiantong' in the East Country?

But in short, the East Country just took this opportunity to hit it off with the White Eagle, and both sides got what they needed. The White Eagle paid a price to get the support of the East Country to deal with the magicians who were causing chaos in the country, and the East Country gained benefits and could sit back and watch the White Eagle test the "God Lord" and Neon's situation.

In the end, no matter who wins or loses, Dongguo will be able to sit back and relax. Even if Baiying wins in the end, it doesn't matter, because Baiying will sooner or later be able to come into contact with the revived Tao and Fa.

Now the White Eagle was just anxious. It was stimulated by the fierce attack on the ribs by the Neon and the deliberate display of strength by the East Country. It was eager to maintain and pursue its current and future dominant position, so it had to use such drastic means.

Otherwise, White Eagle had actually studied this aspect in the past, but they didn't know or expect that such a magic-like thing would have such a powerful upper limit, so they stopped studying it after a while without any results.

Nowadays, they only need to win them over with benefits such as money. Now that Taoism and Fa have gradually begun to flourish, is there still a lack of such people? Although high-end combat power may not be available for the time being, it is enough to maintain a good appearance and resume research.

And now they have to take such a big move against Japan. Dongguo can guess that it is because they cannot do anything to them. So they can only focus on Japan, which in White Eagle's eyes also has a heritage of supernatural powers and a considerable foundation.

Completely defeating or even destroying Neon, and then plundering its supernatural heritage, is the only option for White Eagle to avoid falling behind. Otherwise, if they rely on themselves to rebuild the building almost from scratch, they will fall far behind.

Therefore, all of White Eagle's actions and choices so far were within the expectations of the East Country, and even to some extent completed the plan that the East Country had once had. However, such a smooth progress still gave the East Country an illusion: How could it be like a written script...

As for the White Eagle's plan to drop a nuclear bomb on Japan, although it is a bit radical, I would rather die than let my friend die. If I don't let this angry bald eagle vent his anger, it would be bad if he ends up pecking them.

Besides, in front of someone who has mastered such incredible power as 'Cosmic Light', it is hard to say who will collapse, so just let White Eagle give it a try and see what the 'Cosmic Light', which is also top-level among the endless Dao and Fa, can achieve.

Having said that, the East Country did not slacken its self-preparation. First, it prepared the interception system, and then paid full attention to the launch trajectory of the White Eagle. Nothing that it obtained or shared by the White Eagle could be missed. Even though there was a 99% chance that the White Eagle would not choose to act inexplicably at this time, enough means could reduce the panic of its own people, right?

After all, they only knew that White Eagle was going to drop a nuclear bomb on Neon, and it was a superpowered person of the latter that forced White Eagle to have this as a last resort, and this thing had to explode at his own doorstep.

Rumors and debunkings were spreading all over the place at once, and everyone was confused by the back and forth.

But no matter what, the White Eagle has already drawn its arrow, and they really can't wait any longer. They can't accept starting slowly from scratch in this regard. God knows what those guys in the East Country have achieved after thousands of years of inheritance!

The last time we were invited to deal with those terrorists, the videos of the fight and destruction were spread to everyone in the decision-making level. The degree of that was exactly like in their superhero entertainment works. They were even much stronger than most of the rubbish among them. The most important thing is that this is not a movie or comic, this is reality!

No wonder those rabbits in the East Country cultivate their own land honestly and do not cause trouble when running around. It turns out that they already have a ship to the next era, right?
The more he thought about it, and this thought was not without basis, the more White Eagle could not bear it. The only way was to crush the neons, pick up their corpses, take out what he desired from them, and then greedily suck it clean!

However, reality gave them a blow. Although they didn't expect that a large fleet could easily go there in the morning and handle everything in the evening, no one could have imagined that there was only one person on the Japanese side! One person destroyed them in just a few seconds!
After the images of the battlefield were transmitted back and reviewed several times, they finally came to a conclusion: that is, conventional thermal weapons could no longer pose any threat to the "super-powered person". On the contrary, compared to the terrorists who caused damage in the White Eagle Country at the beginning, if it were this individual, they would probably suffer a more horrific and more difficult destruction.

So after a heated discussion, a proposal that was agreed upon by the vast majority of people was quickly passed as the initial resolution, which was - to drop an appropriate amount of nuclear bomb.

The East Country will never agree to a large equivalent. They can only control an appropriate range so that the impact is only within Japan. In this way, they can achieve their goal without starting a world war. Moreover, a large equivalent is meaningless. Even if it is just an ordinary nuclear bomb, it can kill the super-powered person. But if it cannot kill him, White Eagle will not try a larger equivalent, such as a nuclear weapon that can destroy the entire land area of ​​Japan, because that is meaningless.

Their enemy is not Neon, but that individual. It sounds funny, but it is not funny in reality. A nuclear bomb can't kill that guy, so with the speed they saw him moving, do they have to use nuclear bombs to carry out carpet bombing? It would be better to directly start a world nuclear war. Oh, no... Even the White Eagles probably can't pass a resolution on this point. There is only one kind of person who can drag the whole world to be buried with him without hesitation or warning - that is a madman.

Unfortunately, capitalists only turn into madmen when faced with huge profits. When faced with threats to their lives, they can only tremble and try to find ways to survive, just like those lower-class people they usually look down upon. No, in many cases, they may even be worse than them.

The outcome of this asymmetric war, then, will probably depend on the outcome of the upcoming first nuclear detonation in an era of largely peaceful development since the formation of nuclear deterrence.

(End of this chapter)