On December 19, the Da Shun Army left the fortress and continued advancing. After a morning of fierce fighting, the airships at the very front could already see Nether Capital's outer walls.
In fact, having reached this point, they could now officially begin a powerful and sustained assault on Nether Capital.
This time, Great Shun had concentrated most of its strength on the frontal assault rather than following the strategy of surrounding on three sides while leaving one side open.
For the Da Shun Army, which held the advantage in Fighters, there was simply no need for that. As long as you came out of the fortress city of Nether Capital, they would inevitably catch up to you and wipe you out.
The moment Nether Capital saw Da Shun's airships appear in the distant sky, alarms blared. The city was thrown into extreme tension as airship after airship took off from the Mooring Towers.
Since the war began, the city's three royal airship factories, along with four requisitioned civilian factories, had kept their production lines running day and night, continuously shipping out assembled Combat Airships.
Yet the Frontline seemed like a bottomless black hole. No matter how many airships they produced, they could not satisfy that monster's appetite. Requests from outside arrived one after another, piling high across the desks.
Nether Capital, the distant cities, and the fortress complexes had originally been able to form a complete defensive system together. However, the entire system required sufficient numbers of Mystic Martial Experts to link it together and bring it into effect.
But the consequences of the heavy losses among Mystic Martial Experts during the battles of the previous days had now begun to show.
Those fortresses, built at immense cost in manpower and resources and covered in secret rituals, could delay