Standing in the noisy Command Center, the Gray Military Uniform Man raised his head and looked at the radiance in the night beyond the window.
The radiance at the very top was like a wave, rapidly crashing toward the summit of the entire slope.
But halfway through its advance, the wave of light was split apart by a dim "sharp knife" stabbing down from above.
That sharp knife was like a reef braced against the shore, forcibly cleaving the waves of light on either side.
Yet both sides of the slope were towering sheer cliffs.
The slope before Northern Gate was shaped like a funnel, narrowing the farther up it went, with towering Cliff Walls on both sides.
The rising tide of light was forced apart toward both sides, then squeezed back together when it met the Cliff Walls.
Thus, the entire force of flying fighters was thrown into disarray, impeded, and visibly slowed.
Then, led by a mech, that "sharp knife" squad rapidly thrust left and right, cutting apart the densely packed aircraft and splitting them up. It even completely destroyed some flight squads that had been separated from the main force by the cuts.
The tide of light slowed further. On this slope, the densely packed fighters were actually held back by a small Mecha Squad.
Some fighters rapidly climbed in altitude, trying to bypass the chaos created by the Mecha Squad from the sky.
But soon, those fighters abruptly lost control, falling from the sky into the aircraft formations and exploding into blossoms of flame.
The Gray Military Uniform Man silently watched everything before him. He parted his lips slightly and said calmly, "Send the Mecha Force up."
Beyond the window, the dazzling tide of the army split to either side. A slender sword formed of a