The drop included not only paratroopers, but several... steam excavators and Steam Trucks.
As soon as the airborne troops landed, they began to assemble.
Paratroopers had always suffered the highest casualties of any branch. They often ventured deep into enemy territory to carry out special operations, surrounded by enemies and without any support. All kinds of accidents could happen during the descent, too: being blown off course by strong winds, falling to their deaths through a moment's carelessness, hitting a high-voltage power line...
Those who became paratroopers were almost all the cream of the crop.
This time, though, their mission was somewhat... special.
They weren't going to behead an enemy leader or capture a city. Instead, they would pass through a Space Channel to another world and excavate important strategic resources.
The force making this drop consisted of an entire regiment, with more than sixty martial masters among them.
The entire way, they advanced with unstoppable force.
There was practically no resistance to speak of.
Military martial artists rarely used War Bows; almost all of them used guns. And the guns this unit carried were specially made, large-caliber rifle cannons, with ammunition interchangeable with machine-cannon rounds. The martial masters even carried 30 mm machine cannons, their bodies laden with ammunition.
With the reflexes of martial masters, even a demigod wouldn't dare challenge the might of six or seven of them.
The troops guarded the steam excavators and trucks as they pressed on, leaving behind a large number of barbarian and ferocious-beast corpses.
"Was this left behind during the battle?" One martial master looked at the shattered ground, as if it had been struck by a magnitude-ten earthquake, and the ruined buildings on either side. He was shaken.
"Yeah, it must have been!" another martial master replied with a solemn nod,