At that moment, a fierce battle that had taken place before the bridge of the Natural Crest had just come to an end.
The plaza in front of the armored doors was strewn with twisted wreckage and metal spikes from combat robots and various armed vehicles destroyed in the fighting.
There were also, of course, the more gruesome twisted corpses. The stench of blood hung in the air inside the bridge, impossible to mask even beneath the thicker smell of smoke and gunpowder.
However, only two-tenths of the bodies lying dead here belonged to Commonwealth soldiers. Their remains had already been sent back to the ships ahead of time. As for the Imperial dead, they had been swept aside like garbage, clearing a path forward.
Two wheeled battering rams designed for street fighting had advanced to the doors. These wheeled vehicles looked old-fashioned, but their advantage lay in their reliability. They drew up before the doors, raised their impact hammers wrapped in a disintegration field, and began repeatedly battering the thick armored doors.
Given that this was the bridge defense of a Titan ship, it was easy to imagine how sturdy the design would be. In fact, the doors were made of the same jade-steel armor as a warship's hull, and were also coated with a shield and an energy film.
The instant the disintegration field collided with the energy shield, blinding flashes lit up the area. A deafening vibration buzzed through the air, as if tens of thousands of bees were swarming around.
When Lieutenant Colonel Rozes, clad in power armor, arrived at the bridge doors, this was the scene that greeted him.
He quickly found Brigadier General Taya among their own troops, who were fully equipped and awaiting orders. The young female general, who had earned her star