London.
"What is that?"
General Peewood, stationed at the British Special Guidance Headquarters for Security Assurance, stared dumbfounded at the giant screen.
Yet no one answered him. The entire room had fallen silent.
On the screen, strategic transport planes were disgorging figure after figure.
Emerging from the rear of the cargo holds were blue-haired giants nearly five meters tall, with two horns on their heads, white coats on their bodies, and black Five-Circle Crosses emblazoned across their chests.
Leaping from the side doors were cold-faced warriors of normal human size, all clad in white battle suits with black capes and tactical goggles over their eyes.
(Reference image)
There were no parachutes visible behind them at all. It was as though they were committing mass suicide.
The British forces scattered throughout Liverpool naturally noticed what was happening overhead as well.
Unfortunately, their own fighters simply could not seize air superiority.
Even with a fivefold numerical advantage, they could barely maintain a standoff.
And that was with help from the ground-based air defense systems.
[Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!]
"Rapier" surface-to-air missile units everywhere began firing at the falling "white-clad giants."
The latter neither dodged nor evaded, allowing the missiles to strike and engulf them in violent explosions and flames.
But before the British forces could celebrate for more than a few seconds—
The giants burst through the smoke and continued falling freely toward the ground.
Only now, a pale green spherical energy shield surrounded them.
Clearly, it was this thing that had blocked the missiles.
"Their energy barrier technology can actually be used on individual combat units?!"
General Peewood was completely stunned, cold sweat pouring down his face.
The British higher-ups who witnessed the scene were equally uproarious.
Although Integra had previously told them that the World Government's base possessed powerful energy shields,