Beneath the North City command building, Mide stood on a hastily erected platform, looking up at rows of Mecha and fighters outside the windows, spewing flames through the rain curtain.
He lowered his head and looked at the projections of the officers before him. "I'll ask you one thing: do you believe in Mayor Lynn?"
"We do!"
The officers answered almost without hesitation.
Half an hour ago, they might have hesitated, but after seeing the Kopes Mercenary Group flee in complete disarray, they no longer had any doubts.
If there truly were Legendary Heroes in this world, they believed Mayor Lynn would surely have a place among them.
"Good!"
Mide roared and raised the gun in his hand. "Then tell your little bastards to pick up their guns and show those assholes across the way who the real elite of North City is! Show them who deserves the best food and the best weapons! Fuck them up!!"
"Fuck them up!"
The officers also raised their guns and roared along with him.
Roaring missiles tore through the rain curtain toward the soldiers before the high wall, only to be intercepted by anti-air missiles pouring from the wall's launch ports and exploding into flames across the sky.
Pure white Mecha burst from the flames and collided with the Mecha flying up from below.
Fixed automatic cannons mounted on the ground spewed torrents of fire, blowing apart armored cars charging forward, before bombs dropped from fighters overhead blasted them into twisted scrap metal.
Surging flames filled nearly every corner of the battlefield. From the very beginning, the war had entered its fiercest stage.
"General, our forces have been stopped. We can't push up to the Command Center. The enemy resistance is extremely fierce."
Inside a Floating Fighter, the communicator beside him raised