South Gate · outside the city
The city hanging upside down in the sky and the mist dissipated rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Beneath that magnificent inverted city, before the towering walls rising from the earth, densely packed troops in light armor stood in formation.
Before those troops were armored vehicles still rumbling, aircraft, and a mechanical war wolf floating above countless machines.
A narrow "road" separated the two armies. Every soldier gripped their firearm tightly, their muscles tense.
The massive machines rumbled and roared, every cannon barrel adjusted to its optimal position.
An invisible sense of pressure spread beneath the heavens, seeping into everyone's heart.
It was as though burning flames had reached the fuse of a barrel of explosives. War could descend at any moment.
Deep within the Mecha Force, inside a transport aircraft floating in the air, a middle-aged officer raised his head and looked at the army stretching endlessly before him, all the way to the horizon.
"Looks like the Kwott Group has emptied out its entire reserves this time." The officer turned to the screen beside him and said nervously, "And this is only one Mercenary Group. The other one is still on its way."
"The main Mercenary Groups of the old conglomerates are never weak," the figure on the screen said slowly.
It was Fiss, the current overall Legion Commander of the Nolanka Group.
"Can we hold them back?" The middle-aged officer glanced at the densely packed enemy troops, then lowered his head to look at the Mecha Force before him. "Most of our people are recruits brought in during the later expansion. They can't compare to the experience of those guys on the other side, and we have far fewer troops."
He drew a quiet breath. "If we face