Relief Plan

Sonia's reconnaissance squad discovered a dragon being besieged by Crystal Giants near the edge of the war zone.

To be honest, Gawain had been completely dumbfounded when he first heard the news.

His first thought had been whether that Miss My Little Pony had fallen out of the sky again—after all, that blue dragon had a history of such incidents, and her Flight Technology did not seem particularly reliable.

But he quickly dismissed that guess, because the report said the dragon was black. After rational analysis, Gawain decided that probably was not the result of Melita being blackened by Arcane Lightning...

But regardless, he immediately dispatched a support force to meet her at the breakout point marked by Sonia, while setting out himself for a forward stronghold in the war zone—large numbers of troops were gathering there, preparing to use it as a springboard for further operations in the Maple Region.

Only when several oddly shaped Steel Chariots and a large number of fully armed human soldiers appeared ahead did Maggie finally become certain that she had survived.

That was Cecil's army—the army capable of fighting all the way from the edge of the Contaminated Zone into its heartland.

Steel Chariot engines roared, Magic Cannons let out piercing shrieks, and obelisk-shaped shells accelerated by rails fell into the enemy ranks, ending those pitiful, twisted lives in explosions. Soldiers clad in metal armor marched alongside the chariots, carrying heavy Combat Backpacks and Flamethrowers. Wherever they passed, flames surged and everything burned.

The scent of iron and fire filled the battlefield. This civilizing power, more savage than savagery itself, utterly shook Maggie to her core.

Deafening explosions erupted in every direction, and the earth trembled faintly beneath them. Maggie struggled free from a Crystal Giant trying to seize her tail, then