"Impact point confirmed!"
"Damn it, ten meters too far left!"
"Correcting—"
"Reload complete!"
Inside the governor's mansion walls, a towering gun barrel spat out a long tongue of flame, firing a 100mm high-explosive shell toward the streets near the harbor.
Stepping over the shell casing ejected from the breech, the loader skillfully stepped forward, completed the reload, and closed the breech. At the same time, the gunner calibrated the firing parameters and prepared for the next round.
However, before he could pull the lanyard after running over with it, he was slapped on the back of the head.
"Are you fucking insane?! You fired at Tulip Street?!" Cold sweat beaded on his forehead as the officer strode over, grabbed him by the collar, and unleashed a torrent of curses.
That was Tulip Street!
No one living there was someone he could afford to offend!
The gunner was dumbfounded by the scolding and stammered.
"B-but they're over there..."
"Even so, you can't—"
Before the word "can't" could leave his throat, three whistling sounds tore through the air.
Before he could react, the blaze of the explosion and a spray of shrapnel riddled him like a sieve, sending him and the wreckage of the ruined 100mm cannon flying into a sandpit ten meters away.
Watching the artillery position engulfed by explosive dust through the drone's aerial view, the Intelligence-type player standing beside the mortar emplacement let out an excited shout.
"Direct hit! Artillery destroyed!"
"Nicely done!"
The Strength-type beasts crouching beside the mortars were fired up.
Based on the coordinates provided by the observers, the gunners quickly corrected their firing data and continued sending supporting fire to their allies stationed around the outskirts of Tulip Street.
Shells rained down from the sky, spreading flashes of fire across the end of the street