Chapter 2251 Halting Siege

Chapter 2251 Halting Siege

RUMBLE!

"What's going on...?" Sage Senpu's expression grew alarmed as their senses picked up the high energy levels. "Why is there such heavy energy radiating from the direction of our home? Not just any ordinary levels of energy output. This...!"

It was an energy level that only Martial Sages could output.

The nine Sekigaharan Sages grew deeply concerned about the fact that they were detecting such energy from the direction of their home.

RUMBLE!!

"Dammit!" Sage Shinken cursed. "Did a bunch of Martial Sages attack the Sekigahara Confederate while we were away?!"

"Who dares to make an enemy of the Sekigahara Confederate?"

"We will tear those bastards apart!"

RUMBLE!!!

The nine of them hurried as they sprinted toward the Sekigahara Confederate at top speed with grave expressions.

What they found when they arrived shook them to their very core.

For a moment, they could scarcely believe what they were seeing.

BOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOM!!!

Massive beams of pure energy soared from afar at extraordinary speeds, threatening to raze the entirety of the territory of the Sekigahara Confederate. Each beam possessed destructive power that was easily Sage-level.

BOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!

It was just one nightmare after another.

It didn't seem to end.

Most of them weren't theistic, but all of them couldn't help but wonder if they were being punished by a deity in the heavens.

First, the Sage-level battle had amounted to a failure as the Kandrian Empire had suddenly revealed the addition of seven new Martial Sages to its roster. Then, all but one Master of the Master-level strike force had been massacred and butchered at the hands of the son of the Devil. And now, the Sekigahara Confederate had suddenly and randomly come under attack from the west with long-range apocalypse-class heavy artillery siege weapons.

It was one of the worst days of their lives, without any shadow of a doubt.

"But who...?" Sage Shinken was half praying that this was all a bad nightmare and that he would wake up from it to an entirely ordinary day.

Of course, he knew that was not possible. Martial Sages did not experience dreams.

"...Who is responsible for this attack?" Sage Shinken gritted his teeth. "Who dared to attack the Sekigahara Confederate at this moment, of all times?"

"...Given the direction that these attacks came from, and the unprecedented range of those apocalypse class weapons," one of the four Sages who remained in the Sekigahara Confederate began, "we think it's the Esocline Federation."

Sage Shinken's eyes widened with shock. "...What?"

He gritted his teeth. "You're telling me that the weakest Sage-level nation and a nation with almost no Martial Artists dared to attack the Sekigahara Confederate from afar like cowards while it was in a moment of vulnerability?"

"There's no other possibility I'm afraid." The Sage nodded with cold fury. "That nation is the only one with such powerful siege weapons. Today, they have waged war against us. However, what really makes me wonder is the timing of all of this."

The thirteen Martial Sages fell into deep thought as they considered her words. Was the fact that this attack happened in the middle of an operation that deployed most of the Martial Sages and Martial Masters outside of the nation just a coincidence?

"No..." Sage Shinken had never experienced such rage in his entire life. "This was planned."

His eyes sharpened with murderous anger. "That bastard Emperor Rael. He roped in the Esocline Federation in this war. From this day forth, Esocline Federation is our enemy forever."

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