Monarch High Heaven raised both of his hands and laughed. He declared with a roar of laughter, "Go forth, my babies. Go forth and prosper. Bring me destruction. Bring me victory."
The battleships advanced on the realm tree, truly like locusts. But they didn't attack the realm tree at all. Instead, they formed into several layers of rings around the realm tree. The rings are patrol paths, and they are present every 1,000 kilometers along the length of the realm tree. Considering that this realm tree is about 1,000,000 kilometers tall, that means there are 1,000 patrol lines.
The presence of the battleships around the realm tree is intimidating, to say the least. Their presence is more terrifying when it is considered that each battleship has one main cannon powerful enough to injure Supreme Origin gods.
Each one is a world fragment. But unlike other world fragments that empower their users, these battleships are made for killing. They were created with the aim of causing a prodigious amount of damage. Even their main cannon is called the Prodigious Cannon.
This main cannon is the largest structure that they possess. In fact, the rest of their body was crafted around the main cannon, hence the tubular form of the battleship.
They have other types of guns, though. They have a lot of them. But the equipment that the realm lord is most excited about, apart from the main cannon, is the surveillance systems built into the battleships. It is with this equipment that they will be able to make sure that nothing and no one slips past the blockade that they have formed around the realm tree.
The surveillance systems sense everything, be it matter, energy, or spiritual, in a range of 100,000 kilometers with 99% accuracy. The range could be wider, but it would lose its effectiveness if there was a delay in surveillance.
After all, the waves for its sensors are limited by the speed of light, and light cannot move faster than 300,000 kilometers per second. So as they are, they will be able to sense an enemy and react to the enemy in less than a second.
Monarch High Heaven laughed proudly. "Marvellous. Simply Marvelous. Let me see what they will do now."
He is truly proud of his creation and himself. These battleships are what he has spent the most of the past 10 Origin cycles building. Not only did they require time, they also required a vast amount of resources. After all, who can afford to build 10 billion world fragments?
Then there was the large amount of effort he put into it. He had to create more than 10,000 clones that were working non-stop for a million years while he went about stealing resources.
Creating each world fragment required less effort than the effort Legion put in to build their own since he had his Supreme Law and the power of a world god within his realm tree. But 10 billion is a large number, and he had offended so many people through his stealing spree that they call him a mad man for offending people when he should be making friends to assist him in the era of conquest.
He could have sold life trees for resources and not steal if he needed resources that badly. He would have gained helpers too. But he didn't. Instead, he banned the exploitation of life trees. Not only did that not get him wealth, he also created more powerful enemies.
Monarch High Heaven was laughing as he thought about everything he had to do to get to where he is right now. He did a lot of unreasonable things, created a few legends, and made a lot of enemies. Now is the time for him to pay the price for his achievement.
But he was full of confidence as he said, "Come. Let them come. Let me see how they will fare against my babies."
Mother High Heaven was positively shocked when she saw the battleships. Her confidence increased, but so did her uneasiness.
She had to ask, "Where have you been keeping these?"
She didn't know that he was building world fragments at all. She has never seen them until today.
The realm lord only laughed grandly. Instead of answering her question, he asked his own. "Are you shocked? Are you surprised? Are you in awe of my magnificence? Who is the mad man now?"
He went on to brag, "I told you that we would win. How would we lose with these?"
He is too confident, even though the battleships are not infallible. The barricade can be bypassed. It would require someone moving at the speed of light to escape the blockade.
There are a lot of such individuals in the void universe, but they won't be able to bypass his blockade easily. After all, they will have to slow down to enter the realm. They can't just crash into the barrier at the speed of light. They have to slow down. That will provide the cannons with enough time to blast them.
As for the rest, who are not as fast as the speed of light, they will be shot dead before they reach the realm. Considering that these battleships will only target those without the mark granted by Mother High Heaven, it means only the Origin gods of High Heaven will be able to enter this realm tree.
So the children of the Tyrant Realm won't be able to come to its rescue no matter how much Father Tyrant calls for help. This way, his advantage of being the first to make a move has been solidified, and that is good enough for him to be certain of his victory.
His enemies and allies are yet to move because they don't know which realm he will attack. Even the realm tree that he will be attacking was caught off guard by the declaration, and Mother High Heaven who is his partner was surprised by his battleships.
This is the ultimate element of surprise. The next level is to surprise himself but he can't do that. He will have to settle for second best.
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A/N: How do you think the divine element of surprise can be achieved? How would you take your enemies, your allies, and yourself by surprise?