Countless brilliant fireworks began exploding across space after Jeffrey gave the order. Mechas were destroyed one after another, missiles detonated in succession, and innumerable beams crisscrossed to form a dazzling spectacle. Even from Earth, the countless bursts of light in space could be seen glittering like stars, as magnificent and beautiful as a shower of meteors streaking across the sky.
Countless missiles exploded again, raising another barrier of flame. From Earth, the clouds of fire blooming in space and swiftly dispersing could be seen even more clearly. Whether they watched through broadcasts or looked up into space themselves, everyone knew that the real war had begun at this moment.
The Final Assault began. Xiao Ran and the other three, who had held back due to the fleet's earlier waves of missile attacks, charged into the battlefield once more. This time, however, they did not move together. They spread out and became true spearheads, joining the fleet's A-class and B-class Ace Pilots in tearing through the Void Envoy formation and ruthlessly destroying every enemy in their path.
Kira and Athrun alone, positioned on the left and right respectively, used repeated multi-lock attacks. The attacks that the Tactical Armor Backpack could unleash at once far surpassed what the Meteor Backpack could achieve. With such equipment in Kira and Athrun's hands, even though neither had reached the so-called true A-class, the results they could produce against low-level mechas were not much different from Xiao Ran's.
With just those two mechas, they created a scene within a certain range no different from countless missiles exploding. Those two machines alone turned the area covered by their attacks into a forbidden zone that the enemy could not advance through.
Yet between Kira and Athrun, Kira was still superior. Aside from dealing with the bugs, Kira targeted