Exactly!
The so-called big score Annie had mentioned earlier, and the mission she had assigned to the six-person squad, was to have them install directional explosive charges beneath buildings along both sides of the streets, facing specific directions along a route she had planned!
Then, when she taunted the demons into coming out and led them on a chase, she would activate the charges one by one whenever she came within communication range—about a hundred meters—of each detonation point. By the time she reached the final location, the charges she had activated in sequence, each set to go off at a precisely calculated time, would all explode at almost exactly the same moment. One building after another would collapse, landing squarely on the demons pursuing her from behind!
Of course, with so many demons chasing her across the entire area, the dozens of buildings collapsing along the streets couldn't possibly kill them all. But making them panic, breaking their morale, and inflicting nearly fifty percent casualties wasn't much of a problem.
See?
Though one Greater Daemon had just roared furiously in the darkness and clouds of dust, trying to rally the demons, it hadn't done much good.
Anyway, Annie had waited there for quite a while, but she hadn't seen any demons come to capture her. Instead, there had been plenty of monsters fleeing in every direction, so terrified they'd lost their wits.
Seeing that she'd finished everything she was supposed to do—and even some things she wasn't—Annie decided there was nothing more fun to do. She turned to leave, planning to meet up with a few of the less-stupid idiots, then figure out what to do next.
However...
By a stroke of bad luck, just as Annie went into Stealth and prepared to find the others amid the chaos,