Cummings and his Semirian army captured Choal, the capital city of Jabiim planet, but the city had already been emptied—the treasury had been cleared out, resources transported away, and all the civil and military officials, as well as army commanders, had vanished without a trace.
Afterward, King Otto-Stratus of Jabiim planet announced the establishment of a government-in-exile in the swamps and vowed to resist the Kingdom of Dawn to the bitter end.
All remaining Jabiim forces had broken up into small units and launched guerrilla warfare across the entire planet. This planet endured torrential rain year-round and was covered in rainforests and swamps. Even though the Semirians were gastropods and could move freely through the swamps, that did not mean they could truly adapt to such relentless downpours.
The natives of Jabiim, however, had lived in this environment for thousands of years. Traveling through torrential rain was as easy to them as eating. Some experienced warriors could even determine the Kingdom of Dawn army's location from the frequency of falling raindrops—because soldiers blocked the rain, naturally changing the sound.
Jabiim harassment was nearly everywhere, with attacks erupting all around. And the Semirians? Perhaps when launching a frontal assault, they were like armored vehicles, but that was on an open battlefield. Once they entered complicated rainforests or hills, their weakness in mobility was completely exposed.
On a frontal battlefield, Semirians equipped with heavy weapons and Personal Shields were unstoppable, beating the Jabiim into desperate retreat. Yet in the rainforest, a sudden strike from the shadows could often easily take the life of a slow-turning Semirian.
This constant guerrilla warfare and harassment created enormous trouble for the Semirians. Within a single month, more than 3,000 Semirian soldiers had been killed by guerrillas!
Although the Semirians had an army of a million, the