No. 0009, Beast God World, Patria Continent.
Between the Northern Patria Alliance and the Free Nation, New Patria.
There stood a vast mountain range, majestic and layered with peaks, like a wall of earth.
Deep in the northern reaches of the mountains.
It was covered in snow year-round, and every winter brought biting, freezing winds.
Yet at some point.
Stone houses lit from within had appeared here, along with figures clad in black or blue winter uniforms.
The once uneven mountain terrain was now covered by smooth concrete roads.
Convoys of jeeps, trucks, armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery, tanks, and other vehicles rolled onward amid deafening rumbles, stretching outward like winding dragons.
Further in, these personnel and vehicles.
Could be seen emerging one after another from two "gates of light" of different colors and sizes.
One was a three-meter-tall, two-meter-wide Small Star Gate, its edges radiating silvery-white starlight.
The other was a ten-meter-tall, thirty-meter-wide Celestial Dragon Gate, its edges glowing pale blue.
They were, in fact, "spatial gates" secretly created by Imu.
The name was meant to tell the public that these "gates" were connected to the Celestial Dragons.
Further impressing upon people the immense value the Celestial Dragons held for the World Government.
Put simply, without Imu and without the Celestial Dragons, the World Government could not exist, much less conquer the myriad worlds.
Because the Celestial Dragon Gate was larger.
The World Government arranged for large vehicles and armored units to pass through it.
Personnel from every department, including Astral Legion soldiers, traveled through the Star Gate instead.
The force currently entering from the Giant World was the 2nd Brigade under Colonel Little George.
Since he excelled most at commanding tank warfare, his unit had a full sixty main battle tanks.
And because he was tasked with conquering the