Nearly a month passed in the blink of an eye. UNION, the Humanity Federation, and AEU officially announced the time and location of the exercise, inviting news media to observe from designated areas.
Although they claimed that only three hundred MS units, along with a number of army and air force units, would participate in the exercise, Xiao Ran thought that was complete nonsense. Though he did not know the exact figures, the actual number was probably at least one or two hundred higher.
In reality, the number of MS taking part in the exercise far exceeded Xiao Ran's expectations. It was not merely an extra one or two hundred, but more than eight hundred units. To conceal the scale of their MS deployment, UNION had not even transferred a single MS from the Japanese Special Economic Zone across the coastline.
Thinking of the sheer number of enemies they would soon face gave Xiao Ran a headache. By his estimates, there should have been only around five hundred.
According to information from Miss Huang and Wang Liu Mei, all four pilots from the Angels, rather than just two, would take part in this operation. They would pilot every machine the Angels possessed and assist Celestial Being in carrying out this intervention.
As for the second echelon, namely those Participants who had joined Celestial Being, Xiao Ran did not know what missions they had carried out so far, but they would also be joining this operation.
Perhaps everyone in Celestial Being, whether aboard the Ptolemaios or in Tiandu, understood the difficulty of this mission. They may even have realized that if it succeeded, the world might truly begin to change. Celestial Being's overwhelming display of power could force the three nations to formally establish a military alliance, perhaps even unite into