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Chapter 1001, Section 996: Building a Cannon

Although this point wasn't explicitly stated, everyone could sense that the war between the Federation and Heaven had intensified, as if the Federation had been inspired by the previous two victories to launch a series of offensives.

However, things did not go so smoothly afterward. After losing two chief angels, Heaven completely lost its former sluggishness and became extremely cunning and agile again, giving the Federation no chance whatsoever.

Moreover, these two angels have demonstrated a stronger overall combat power than before. The new Seraphim and Power Angels not only maintained the combat power level of their predecessors, but also showed a higher level of tactics and strategy. They were even significantly stronger in their use of the power of Heaven than their predecessors, which made them much more difficult to deal with.

Even though the Federation increased its investment in the war, it only maintained the original efficiency. The nemesis of Heaven in fulfilling the prophecy has not weakened in the slightest. Although this can indeed prevent Heaven from summoning the destined returners in the short term, Maren has also learned that the energy they need may be far less than the Federation predicted.

Of course, Maren did not hide this news from the Federation, but informed them directly. Although he could not provide any explanation or details, this did not affect the Federation's belief in his warning.

As the king of the gods, his words often have an effect simply by speaking.

This could minimize the chances of the Federation losing the war due to miscalculation, but the situation remains extremely dire, with the Federation and all its allies working globally to prevent any advancement of the prophecy.

But no matter how many times they successfully prevent it, as long as they miss a few prophetic advances, Heaven can take the opportunity to accumulate the corresponding power, which makes the scales of victory always tip in favor of the other side.

Unless they can completely crush all of Heaven's conspiracies, this situation is irreversible, and in fact, they have almost achieved this in the Southern Federation.

Maren and his men not only possess top-tier combat power, but also have a strong control over this land. However, the problem is that Heaven can actively avoid the Southern Federation. Although the Federation has successfully transferred some of the prophetic subjects to the Southern Federation for hiding, many more prophecies cannot be transferred in this way.

Some prophecies have taken root elsewhere, while others have no physical form at all.

But this wasn't entirely a bad thing, because this scene solidified the Federation's resolve, though not to the point of unleashing the Divine Firmament, but at least they no longer hesitated about attacking Heaven.

When making the decision, they naturally informed Sera and began preparing and coordinating this ultimate offensive. Moreover, as they said at the time, the Federation was also considering how to make Sera, who could only be in the Southern Federation, play his role.

They quickly came up with a simple solution: build a super cannon in the Southern Federation.

To be precise, it is an ultimate weapon designed under the leadership of the Federation's chief "scientist" Zhao Guanwu, which can transform the endless power of the sun god into anti-heaven power and directly attack the body of heaven through surreal teleportation.

Although it is called a cannon, it does not require the operator to aim it personally. Instead, it can directly lock onto the heaven that is not entirely located in the material universe. Moreover, it does not fire cannonballs, but rather anti-heaven energy transformed from the power of the sun god. This process actually requires the use of falling feathers as an aid.

The most unique feature of this anti-heaven cannon is that it can withstand and store enormous amounts of energy, which perfectly matches the characteristics of the sun god.

As a sealed deity, the Sun God's power is actually VI-5 in strength. This means that although Maren can only manifest a V-5 strength normally due to the seal, this power is inexhaustible.

This power is like a reservoir dammed up by a tap; even if it contains a lot of energy, the power output is limited, so it's mostly meaningless. It was precisely this characteristic that led Zhao Guanwu to create a cannon capable of storing massive amounts of energy. This cannon is like a large reservoir; although it can't compare to a reservoir itself, it can still store a huge amount of energy.

This reserve is so large that it would take more than a dozen normal top-tier V-level ability users to drain it dry, but Ma En, as the sun god, can forcibly fill it up.

Of course, even if he wanted to fill up this energy, it would take him more than ten minutes, and he would have to output it at full power without being disturbed. After all, the target of this cannon is Heaven, and Heaven also gathers energy far exceeding that of top-level ability users of the same level. The amount of energy needed to pose a threat to it is immeasurable.

Therefore, as long as the Cherubim send out forces of the same level to interfere, such energy gathering will not be successful. Moreover, although the Federation has specially mobilized anti-prophecy resources to cover up this weapon, as long as Marne begins to gather energy, the Cherubim will definitely be able to detect it, after all, this is a major event concerning her own survival and that of Heaven.

Therefore, at that time, the Cherubim will inevitably try to stop Marne.

And that is their real purpose.

Neither the Federation nor Maren considered using this weapon to destroy Heaven. After all, Heaven was not a target, and in reality, such a weapon had too many flaws. Besides being too time-consuming, it also had many other problems. For example, theoretically, the Cherubim could actually find a way to mislead the target.

However, if Heaven were under full-scale attack by the Federation when this cannon were to be unveiled, the situation would be entirely different, and the Cherubim would have to invest sufficient resources to stop Marne from accumulating power.

And firstly, this will draw away some of Heaven's power.

Next, the cannon's main function will begin to operate—in fact, the cannon itself is just an accessory to the weapon, and the weapon's true function is to capture and isolate angels that enter the surrounding environment.

The cannon itself was like bait on the anglerfish's head, meant to lure her into Marne's gaping maw.

Meanwhile, similar plans and weapons are being developed around the world. The "Anglerfish Project" is one of the more important projects that has received more resources, but there should be at least ten other projects of the same level, as well as countless lower-level projects and a very few more important ones.

Even he knew this most basic information, and the fact that the Federation revealed this to him was clearly telling Marne and the others that they had made up their minds, even though such an investment of resources was quite terrifying for them.

In fact, only they could do it; even their rival, Paradise, couldn't achieve this level of accomplishment.

This is undoubtedly good news, but there's still a problem for Marx and Engels...

He also had to capture the Cherubim alive.

(End of this chapter)