The battle situation was unusually intense.

Since Kael came to this world, he had never seen so many people.

He admitted that he might have underestimated the madness of the warfare of this period.

Upon careful reflection, during the tug-of-war period between the Yibel Federation and the Holy Briania in his past life, most players were more often wandering, with only a small number of professional players, top players, and lone wolves like himself being active on the battlefront.

But...

Being active on the battlefront didn't necessarily mean being at the frontline, let alone being on the core battlefield.

The wave formed by the professionals' alliance and the various extradimensional races and monsters they summoned seemed conscious. These professionals' alliance and extradimensional monsters dispersed themselves, intending to slow the Floating City's progress.

If it were an ordinary Floating City, it would be fine. After all, a regular Floating City might even find using anti-aircraft guns to shoot mosquitoes a bit excessive. But what this group of professionals encountered... was a Floating City capable of utilizing the War Mage Core's skill "Hand of War".

Kael didn't even need to act himself. With a single volley from the Floating Cannons controlled by the autonomous puppets, the professionals' alliance could be said to have suffered heavy losses.

The million-strong army composed of the professionals' alliance and summoned creatures, upon crashing head-on with the Titan Floating City, was almost completely annihilated in less than fifteen minutes.

They delayed, but not completely.

The final result was as if no delay was achieved.

In fact, the mentality of the members of each Church is now on the brink of collapse.

They had never seen such a terrifying war machine; with the warfare reaching full-scale outbreak, crossfire between the two sides had lasted a week, and all sides had a general assessment of the Floating City.

In its basic form, the Floating City's standard firepower doesn't dare claim that no grass grows where it passes, but at least it allows Magic Monarchs to reach the destructive power limit of first-class demigods + mage-specific spell coverage area.

According to reports from those fearless war reporters surveying the Floating City's battlefield, even the most basic Floating City possesses the strength to destroy a small country.

This terrifying combat power truly shocked everyone who witnessed it.

After all, although it is said Magic Monarchs could rival demigods, anyone with a bit of understanding of words knows that rivaling a demigod does not mean being a demigod.

The Magic Monarchs' trump card of fighting above their weight class seemed to falter somewhat upon entering the legendary domain.

It's not that the Magic Monarchs have become weaker. As one of the few careers that could contend against demigods when well-polished, the power of a Magic Monarch is beyond doubt.

However, Magic Monarchs can indeed contend against demigods. If they encountered untrained demigods or elderly ones, it is truly possible they could play safe and hammer the veteran mentor.

But perhaps the effectiveness of the Magic Monarchs' domain in amplifying spell power is indeed excessive, inevitably leading to some relatively negligible "after-effects."

For example, after gaining a domain close to the Eight God Domain, it became much harder for mages to break through to the demigod.

It's not that there is a bottleneck, but because the "container" of the Magic Monarch became larger, the time needed to fully activate their spiritual power naturally increased, in exchange for almost no bottlenecks when approaching the demigod phase.

This should have been a good thing, but in this world, it may not be so good.

This means that whether or not Magic Monarchs are geniuses, once they reach the domain of a Magic Monarch, they need to spend more time accumulating their foundations to advance toward broader horizons.

So... why might this not be a good thing?

The reason is simple: because your enemies might not let you live to break through to demigod.

In the end, a Magic Monarch is a Magic Monarch, not a true demigod. Often, they could be quietly singled out by other demigods, possibly on a dark and windy night, suddenly killing the Magic Monarch.

This is not impossible.

Although in the past five or six hundred years, there have been demigod mages born from the mage group, the number of people promoted to demigod mage from the status of Magic Monarch is... 0.

Yes, a shocking 0 people.

It's not that no one has ever been able to break through to demigod from Magic Monarch, but over the past few hundred years, all Magic Monarchs close to breaking through to demigod have had incidents, without exception.

Some were killed by certain enemies, some were killed while on the road seeking materials related to breaking through to demigod.

Those who laid hands on the Magic Monarchs were all demigods, which means that even if the strength of a Magic Monarch is strong, once elevated to the domain of a demigod, it is not impossible to inflict an effective strike against the Magic Monarch.

In this situation, the ultimate result will be an extremely awkward one: during the long period of power accumulation, they might be deliberately targeted and wiped out by enemies or strong entities from hostile factions.

But now, things seem to differ from what various forces imagined.

Even the most ordinary Floating City, in the hands of a Magic Monarch, could magnify their own power to the extreme, and the Magic Monarchs' deterrence reached its peak in this moment.