Mingdu's entire city center had become a battlefield.
The smallest Eight-armed Demon Gods stood ten meters tall, while the god-tier ones easily reached a hundred meters. Wielding eight greatswords, they rampaged through the city like monstrous beasts.
Nor were they alone. Some of the warbeasts raised by the Eight-armed Demon Gods were also ravaging the city.
The once-magnificent Sun Moon Imperial Palace, repeatedly restored over the years and now one of the Federation's most popular tourist attractions, had suffered devastating damage. Countless antiques and treasures within had been smashed, erasing the traces left behind by history.
Observatories, botanical gardens, concert halls, clubs, shopping centers, Soul Tool factories, museums, office buildings—countless structures were destroyed by the Eight-armed Demon Gods, reducing the central city of the Douluo Federation to ruins.
Mecha Divisions surrounded the Eight-armed Demon Gods and held them back. Mechas were destroyed from time to time, and their pilots perished with them.
Although mechas were close to the Eight-armed Demon Gods in size, their combat power was vastly inferior.
A thousand standard-issue mechas working together could kill an ordinary Eight-armed Demon God, but there were twenty thousand Eight-armed Demon Gods. Where could Mingdu find twenty million mechas? Even the entire Federation could not gather that many.
With Mingdu's current military strength, even passive self-defense was barely possible, let alone an offensive. Given such an enormous disparity in combat power, the fact that they had not fled before the battle even began was already remarkable.
For now, Mingdu's strategy was to delay the enemy's advance and cover the civilian evacuation. Soul Tool fighter jets, Soul Tool mechas, and Soul Tool Cannon Arrays worked together in air-ground coordination, slowing the Eight-armed Demon Gods' advance and destruction as much as possible.
A large number of the Federation's new Soul Tool Weapons had been