The time rewound to the latter half of the night, before dawn.
Just as the Burning Corps was locked in fierce battle with the remaining Torch forces, another battle drenched in blood and gore was entering its final climax in a different abandoned urban district a hundred kilometers away.
More than a hundred Conqueror V tanks and their accompanying infantry cut off every route leading from the ruins into the wilderness, as well as the possibility of fungal mutants from the Realm of Heaven reinforcing the city ruins.
Immediately afterward, over ten thousand Velaander infantrymen and tens of thousands of clone soldiers launched simultaneous attacks from more than a dozen directions under artillery cover, encircling and annihilating the remaining Torch Church forces and mutant tribes trapped within the ruins.
According to maps from the Prosperous Era, this abandoned urban district had once belonged to a major city called Hirota City, with a permanent population of more than eight million.
But this was now the Wasteland Era. Its former prosperity had long vanished without a trace, and only the rust-stained road signs still remembered its name.
Upon learning that this city might contain materials related to the Perfect Lifeform Project, Lium had without hesitation dispatched the nearest 37th Ten-Thousand-Man Corps to capture it, ordering them to seize it before The Alliance's landing forces could claim the prize!
The attackers were the Legion's 37th Ten-Thousand-Man Corps, along with a Glorious Army composed of thirty thousand clone soldiers.
The defenders, meanwhile, were Torch's Flames Knight Order and the Lame Clan.
Though the latter's name sounded ridiculous, the mutants of that clan clearly were not actually lame. Given mutants' ability to regenerate severed limbs, lame mutants were not particularly likely in the first place.
In fact, contrary to their comical name, the mutants of