The battlefield had been utterly devastated. The tremors continued for roughly three minutes before slowly subsiding.
Under the enemy's Shockwave Weapon attack, the robot forces had been... annihilated!
Yet after the tremors ended, a hundred or so Hounds began crawling out of the disaster zone in twos and threes. Their powerful bodies had given them a chance to survive even this terrifying catastrophe.
The battle drew to a close with the enemy being the first to deploy a weapon of mass destruction...
The Earth Defense Force's virtual command room.
The scene before them, resembling a natural disaster, left everyone speechless for a long time...
Although warfare at this level started with nuclear weapons, and everyone had long since braced themselves for weapons capable of mass destruction, witnessing it still shook them. After all, even nuclear weapons had only truly been used once in Earth's history!
"Ah... did we fail after all?" Yuri looked at the battlefield, somewhat dejected.
"It wasn't a failure of our fighting ability. We did everything we could. Didn't we expect this outcome anyway? I was already surprised the Twin Stars were willing to take their time fighting a ground war with us," Schneider sighed.
"Yes. They're probably impatient to probe more of our capabilities, so they escalated the fighting. Now we'll have to see how the Ghost Captain responds..." General Hu said.
"It'll be difficult... With such heavy losses, the Ghost Captain will either have to use nuclear weapons or fall back on the base's defenses, won't he?" Yuri was rather pessimistic.
By their reckoning, the Ghost Captain had already committed nearly ten thousand Miniature Robots and vast amounts of equipment. The base had only recently been built. No matter how fast production was, they doubted he had many troops left.
"Generals, the AI Core