The battle began again.
The warriors immediately plunged into endless slaughter. The clashes between heavy mechs and Star Beasts carried far into the distance.
On the ground battlefield, the busiest were the biomedical scientists and Medical Robots.
They moved through the battlefield, pulling injured warriors out of their mechs, bandaging wounds, and performing surgery without a second of rest.
They raced against death, yet they still could not prevent it.
Whenever a warrior lost their life, a Voice Message would pop up on the terminals. Every announcement broke the hearts of the other warriors.
Xi Xiu felt it even more keenly. She knew there would be sacrifices, yet she always naively believed her team could somehow be lucky enough to escape them every time.
Yet she understood there was not that much luck to go around. This battlefield was exceptionally brutal.
The Star Beasts had reached an unprecedented level of strength. Even heavy mechs could be sent flying by their strikes.
Moreover, they had learned to fight together. A six-person team could not handle even two Star Beasts.
Xi Xiu, Arivik, Li Zhengfeng, and the others immediately changed their battle plan, using protective barriers to separate the Star Beasts.
Then they killed them one by one.
Although they had changed their plan in time, messages announcing the warriors' sacrifices still came through from time to time.
Those messages affected her fighting. She could only turn off the Voice Messages and kill more Star Beasts. That was the only thing she could do.
After killing fifteen, she was utterly exhausted. She braced herself with her longsword and looked over her section of the battlefield, where Star Beast corpses filled her sight.
Foul-smelling liquid covered the ground.
The stench lingered for a long time.
Beyond the protective barrier, the Star Beasts bared