57: Chapter 57 The King's Cannon!

"We can't hold them back... there's no end to them! We don't have enough firepower to clear these mobs!"

Watching a dozen hideous demonic beasts trample over their comrades' corpses, about to break through Mash's crumbling Great Shield and dive into the blue gate behind her, PD fell into complete despair.

He let go of the controller, his eyes filled with a sense of powerlessness:

"How are we supposed to fight this? The numerical difference is ridiculous. Is this a scripted defeat?!"

Not just him, but the viewers in the livestream were also plunged into a deathly silence before this suffocating swarm tactic.

The power of mortals seemed so laughable and insignificant in the face of the endless calamities of the Age of Gods.

Just when everyone thought the defensive line was about to collapse and closed their eyes to accept the [Mission Failed] ending...

Boom!

In the sky, a heavy, dull rumble like rolling thunder suddenly echoed!

In the background of the tactical sand table, a dazzling golden light suddenly erupted from the top of the pyramid temple in the center of Uruk, far from the Northern Wall!

A shocking golden system notification box popped up in the center of the screen:

[Special Story Support NPC: Hero King Gilgamesh (Caster), has joined the battlefield fire support network!]

"What?!" PD looked up abruptly.

In the distant view of the VR vision, the Wise King, wearing cloth robes and who should have been sitting in the temple reviewing official documents, was now standing at the highest point of the temple.

He didn't come to the battlefield personally, but the entire sky behind him was completely torn apart by countless golden ripples of magical energy at this moment!

Hundreds of massive magical cannons poked their muzzles out from the golden spatial rifts, aiming at the distant Northern Wall battlefield!

—"That is land that even the gods shall not dare to touch."

Gilgamesh's majestic, arrogant voice, filled with supreme dominance, crossed the vast distance and echoed over the entire battlefield.

"Mere beasts dare to act insolently before the walls of Uruk?!"

"All batteries, load. Let these mongrels turn to ash in the fury of the Gate of Babylon!"

"Fire!!!"

Following the Wise King's command!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The entire sky seemed to be covered by a golden meteor shower!

Thousands of golden magical shells, carrying world-destroying power, streaked across the sky and poured down on the demonic beast swarm like a rainstorm with a domineering, violent posture, crossing half the city with precision!

Rumble—!!!

Deafening explosions continued endlessly, and the entire screen shook violently under this golden carpet-bombing!

The tide of demonic beasts that had been so arrogant and suffocating PD just moments ago didn't even have time to scream before they were turned into ash in swathes by this map-wide fire support!

Not only that, in the following battle, whenever a large group of demonic beasts gathered or a giant elite monster appeared...

The system would pop up a notification: [The King's Fire Support has arrived!]

Then, a golden rain of shells would descend from the sky right on time, accurately blasting the monsters to low health and greatly easing the player's defensive pressure on the ground.

"Holy crap, holy crap!!! What kind of god-tier support is this?!"

"Long-range cross-map carpet bombing?! Using the Gate of Babylon as a map-wide fixed mortar?!"

"This is what a true King is! Sitting in the office while cannons fall from the sky!"

"Security! This unparalleled sense of security! Gilgamesh, I love you! You're no longer that arrogant tyrant; you're my only father!"

"So sitting in the temple wasn't just about reviewing documents—he also had to constantly divert magical energy to control the Gate of Babylon and provide long-range fire support for the entire border defense?! No wonder he died from overwork!"

The livestream audience was completely ignited by this shocking visual spectacle and the stroke of genius in the support mechanic!

"Brothers! Gilgamesh is watching us! Kill them all!!!"

PD was fired up by the golden rain of shells and controlled his Servants to launch a desperate counterattack.

Under the Wise King's practically absolute fire suppression, this wave of demonic beasts, which was originally enough to destroy the walls, was finally completely repelled.

[Defensive Battle Victory!]

As the smoke cleared, the human soldiers on the walls erupted in earth-shattering cheers.

PD and all the players were completely won over by this Wise King during this exhilarating defense.

Back at the temple, having just completed a wave of extremely magic-draining long-range fire suppression, Gilgamesh was clearly even more exhausted, yet he still sat before the mountain of clay tablets, not even lifting his head.

"Hmph, somewhat useful, at least you didn't let the demonic beasts soil my walls."

The Wise King gave a cold snort and casually tossed a clay tablet onto the table.

"However, Chaldea's Master, do not think you can be complacent just because you repelled a few beasts."

Gilgamesh looked up, a hint of unprecedented gravity in his tired red eyes.

"The true calamity is only just beginning."

"Do you think that on this land, my true enemies are those brainless demonic beasts?"

"No."

Gilgamesh stood up and spoke the terrifying truth that had plunged the entire Singularity into an abyss of despair with a cold expression:

"What I, and this city of Uruk, must face..."

...are the three true [Gods] manifested upon this land of Mesopotamia, attempting to destroy human history!"

Gilgamesh's voice became incredibly low, every word like a mountain pressing down on the players' hearts:

"Entrenched in the north is the [Demonic Beast Goddess—Gorgon], who commands the endless tide of demonic beasts you just saw and has sworn to crush humanity along with their flesh and blood."

"Ruling the south is the [Goddess of the Forest—Quetzalcoatl], who spreads wings of wyverns that blot out the sun, turning prosperous cities into primitive jungles in an instant and snatching away living humans for slaughter like livestock."

"And then there is that [Underworld Goddess—Ereshkigal], lurking deep within the abyss, silently spreading death and attempting to drag all the living into the endless underworld!"

"These three true gods, who yield to no one yet have reached a death pact to completely divide and erase humanity from this land..."

"Their name is—the [Three Goddess Alliance]!"

Boom! The mention of this term was like a sudden clap of thunder on level ground.

"Three... three gods?!"

A-Dai gasped in the livestream, her voice trembling, "Not myths or legends, but three living, true gods?!"

"Is this a joke?" PD was also dumbfounded.

Previously in the sixth chapter, a single deified Lion King had already made players across the internet question their lives, even forcing Arash to sacrifice himself and Bedivere to burn his soul just to barely win.

And now, Gilgamesh was telling them that on this land...

...there were three of those unreasonable true gods?!

And they had even formed an alliance?!

To face three allied gods with mortal bodies?

This wasn't just Hell difficulty; this was the eighteen levels of Avici Hell where there was no chance of survival!

"The final struggle of the Age of Gods... so this is the true meaning of the Seventh Singularity [Absolute Demonic Beast Front]..."

Chu He felt excited to see names from history books appearing before him, but as he looked at Gilgamesh's tired yet still steadfast back, an indescribable sense of tragic heroism welled up in his heart.

Had that King been leading a group of mortals, struggling to hold on for a full six months under the pincer attack of three true gods?

The suffocatingly grand epic of the Chaldea universe had finally, at this moment, completely unveiled its most climactic and tragic corner to players across the planet.