After the barrier surrounding the Fortress City cracked, Jabberwock personally led the charge into the city, breaking through the city wall and massacring everyone in his way. The resistance wasn't that much, as the strongest warlocks were fighting on the frontline against the Khaos Brigade and Sardaukar and experts of the Chthonian Empire together with the Dawn Lord.
Not to mention, the majority of the plane's population was absorbed by the Dawn Lord. There was only one Holy Spirit Warlock, who was killed by Jabberwock even before he could attempt to escape.
After securing the area, Hilda proceeded to scan the Dawn Pillar, as they got instructions to analyze it and record everything possible around it, so they could research them and reverse engineer this technology back in the Empire, as it had a lot of potential.
A simple reason behind that.
Usually, it was impossible for someone to control the plane, as something like their Father held; the Command Sequence didn't exist, as the "control" itself was with the Planar Will. So, countless people researched methods on how to seize control of the Planar Will, and apparently, Dawn Lord managed to create a method on how to do it, which was a pretty straightforward one and could be used by almost anyone.
Before the Dawn Lord could realize anything and send someone to intercept them, even though that act would be absolutely in vain, after getting all relevant data from the Dawn Pillars, Jabberwock punched at the Dawn Pillar at his full power several times, as the Pillar finally crumble down.
"Pack up your thing, everybody; we are marching at the Dawn City. God, that fucker either has a crap naming sense, or his ego is over the size of a Titan."
Shouted Jabberworck orders as the 1st Legion moved forward.
***
Around the same time, with a Khaos Brigade.
Always living to their name and reputation as the strongest force of the Empire after the Custodians who guarded the Holy Imperial City of Anor Londo and, more importantly, the Imperial Palace and Sanctus Imperialis, Khaos Brigade was unmatched on the battlefield.
Under the leadership of their commander Vali Lucifer who advanced to the Dimensional-Class some time ago, they were crushing the opposition from the Warlocks of the Sunrise Alliance, Dawn Imperial Court and Gods of the Heavenly Plane aka Dawn Pantheon, one by one.
30,000 Tier 5 soldiers of the Khaos Brigade clad in the runic armors were basically killing anything that came to their way, slaughtering their ways through the Divine Legions of Gods, as the Father of All Devils collected the souls.
Vali was fighting a group of Holy Spirit Warlocks of the Dawn Imperial Court, as suddenly, one of them just found himself with a huge gaping hole where his heart was supposed to be; Vali just swung his spear True Longinus to get rid of it of blood.
He was a battle maniac through and through. Time only worsened his tendencies, as he was fighting 7 Holy Spirit Warlocks at the same time, of which 3 of them were Advanced Holy Spirit Warlocks. However, one of them was right now killed by the True Longinus.
His skill over the Holy Spear True Longinus, coupled with his terrifying physique due to being Devil Dragonoid, was physically wise; he was at least two times stronger than other Devils with the same exact physique.
Suddenly an enormous amount of Holy Flames burst out of his body, forming a giant pillar as it enveloped his entire body.
With a swing of his spear forward, all of the Holy Flames swirled in a tornado as they were literally being thrown at the Holy Spirit Warlocks.
All Holy Spirit Warlocks hastily activated all protections they could, only for the weaker ones to be burned to ash, as their protective artifacts crumbled and, under the might of the Holy Flames, turned into ashes as Vali teleported in front of unprotected Warlocks.
With three swift stories of the Holy Spear True Lognunus, three heads sprung into the air, and three headless bodies fell onto the ground.
***
Dresden Arcanum Empire, Arcane Temple, Inner Sanctum.
"They have started, Your Majesty."
Reported the unnamed shadow to a handsome man with long silver hair, who was leisurely laying on the sofa.
"Hmm... who would have thought that he would act this soon? It appears that he must have progressed faster than anyone anticipated, and now he wants to swallow the Warlock Path. Not that it is a bad thing to see those failures disappear from the world. I think we need to hold Xuanyuan at bay when the flames of the Jihad reach Canghzi."
Muttered Adolf K. Weismann, the founder of the Dresden Arcanum Empire and Exarch Arcanists, one of the most powerful beings in the Astral Boundary.
'In the end, the one who benefited most from the formation of the Orden was Samiel Zentaur. Ironically that Mercurius, who created the Orden, was, in the end, losing its control over it due to his very nature as Observer.'
Thought Silver King.
Mercurius had a unique condition, and he, due to the nature of his entire existence, was forced only to act as an observer.
"Send a message to the Emperor and inform other Color Kings and Tower Masters to prepare for the War. Target all places where the Jihad has not been, and prevent all outside interference in this matter. I am sure that those wretched parasites would sooner or later attack when they realize what is happening, and the same for those old fossils in the Ancient Eternal Star Region."
Ordered Weismann, as for a second, the cheerful aura was gone and was replaced by endless pressure of power and dread.
"Jihad will be completed, and Canghzi will fall into the hands of Chthonians. It won't be long before he surpasses even me, and his ambitions are... far beyond Mercurius or me could ever imagine."
Sighed Weismann, as he was aware of the ambitions of his friend.
Becoming a Singularity.
Impossible goal.
Even Weismann acknowledged that he didn't have enough for that; thus, he remained content by reaching the level of the Tier 13 or ascending to the Tier 13.1. Divine Throne, either one of them was satisfactory. In some cases, powerful Great Old Ones could squash even Divine Thrones to death in terms of combat prowess, though Divine Thrones cannot really die unless their Universe is destroyed.