As the Burning Corps' most elite "Mechanized Infantry Company" entered the battlefield, the perilous situation facing the First Battalion was instantly turned around.
Amid the shattered ruins, pale red arcs of light flashed continuously. Every flash meant another heavy infantryman's armor being cleaved apart by scorching jets of molten metal!
Wielding a thermal cutting axe, Old White took down one "little friend" with every swing. With a few resounding blows, he sent the Holy Light Knights' power armor sprawling in every direction and tore open a gap in their line!
The Holy Light Knights were swiftly split into two groups, descending into chaos within the dark, cramped ruins.
The entire battle became a completely one-sided slaughter!
And that was not all. The Cloud Dragonfly ornithopters lying in ambush near the city also launched their attack!
Guided by the ground forces' fire, the rockets loaded in their pods poured out in a barrage. Amid deafening explosions, they instantly turned the Holy Light Knights' flanking positions into a sea of flames!
The scorching blast waves even melted the steel buried within the concrete. Corpses clad in exoskeletons lay scattered everywhere.
Watching countless comrades die and fall wounded in an instant, the Holy Light Knights' commander turned a hatred-filled gaze toward the "Dragoon" carrying the short axe and forced out a sentence through clenched teeth.
"...Long live the Kingdom of Heaven!"
His pupils gradually turned crimson. Threads of scorching white vapor drifted from his mouth, while the skin all over his body twisted as if scalded by boiling water. Flesh-red fungal filaments spread outward, merging with the armor covering his body.
He offered everything he had to the Kingdom of Heaven, including his mind and flesh, in exchange for supreme power.
Having fused with unstable genetic stock solution, he had now completely become