The red fog could block all prying eyes, greatly enhance the Warp Daemons' abilities, and twist and gradually assimilate the material world into the Warp. Not long after Annie blew up the source of the fog in Guixu City, the daemons did indeed spread it from another source, once again blanketing the vast areas exposed to the base's view.
Still, the Warp Daemons had been a little too slow.
The moment the red fog lifted, the Mining Base received accurate intelligence and quickly unleashed every kind of attack it could on the many demon gathering points, large and small. Missiles, rockets, large-caliber shells, and even tactical fusion strikes rained down on point after point across the wilderness and mountains west of Guixu City. Amid the rolling thunder of the blasts, flames and black smoke rose everywhere, along with mushroom clouds from the fusion strikes. The daemons' hard-won forces, assembled to launch an all-out assault, were blown to pieces!
That was right—to pieces!
After every marked location had been bombed, the strange red fog spread again and blocked the base's reconnaissance methods. But the base's artillery and aircraft had not been idle. They continued saturating the areas around the bombed sites, hunting down the scattered daemons. They seemed set on making sure the daemons couldn't regroup on a large scale.
Of course, the Warp Daemons saw what the base was doing—and how close it was to achieving its goal!
See?
At that moment, on the roof of a tall building in the western suburbs of Guixu City, a group of demons had gathered. They were hideous and massive, and the aura of Warp Chaos clung to them from head to toe. Even the air around them reeked of sulfur, scorched earth, and thick, bloody stench.
They did nothing but gaze toward