Nine Best Controllers retreated to a city in the rear, only to discover that the civilians here had not yet been fully evacuated.
Tens of thousands of American troops were still rushing to evacuate them, but there was no longer enough time.
The sudden breach of the Northern Front had allowed the enemy to surge into Pennsylvania like a tidal wave.
"The civilians here haven't been evacuated yet! We have to hold the enemy back," one Society member said.
The American troops stared blankly at the distant, pitch-black line advancing toward them.
"Huh? With just us?"
Before today, most of the American troops had no concept of what a hundred million people looked like.
If people formed a ten-kilometer-long column from one end of a plain, packed shoulder to shoulder until it reached ten kilometers away—
A square formation covering one hundred square kilometers would contain roughly a hundred million people.
From a distance, it would look like a sea of humanity, densely packed as far as the eye could see, with more figures than anyone could possibly count.
Of course, the Arcane Oligarchy civilization did not use such a dense formation. On the contrary, they were doing their utmost to spread out.
Their two billion people were distributed across roughly one hundred thousand square kilometers. Some areas were densely populated, while others were scattered and sparse.
But compared to the American troops, there were simply far too many of them.
Many American soldiers lost all will to fight just from seeing the terrifying numbers with their own eyes.
It was such an enormous quantity that their minds could not process it. And that was not even considering the enemy's powerful individual weapons.
A coordinated volley from several million Hand Cannons could carpet-bomb a vast area.
Basically, no defensive fortification