Once the Plane Portal was built, the Indigenous Allied Forces immediately sent in their reserve troops.
At the same time, their reserve Transcendents launched an attack, hoping to destroy the Plane Portal before it had fully opened.
This was the decisive battle of the plane-landing campaign. Whether the landing succeeded or the Indigenous Allied Forces held them off depended on this fight.
The city-state garrison at the landing site only had to hold out until the Plane Portal opened and the main reinforcements arrived. Then the war would immediately enter its next phase.
If the Indigenous Allied Forces destroyed the Plane Portal before it opened, or just as it began transporting reinforcements, the plane-landing campaign would continue. Lothar City-State would use a backup location to build another Plane Portal.
"No wonder they're a veteran military city-state!"
It was no surprise that Lothar City-State had more powerful contingencies in reserve than the Indigenous Allied Forces.
In this decisive battle, the Indigenous Allied Forces never managed to reach the Plane Portal. They could only watch helplessly as wave after wave of reinforcements came through.
The plane-landing campaign had been completed successfully. Next came the full-scale invasion.
After the landing succeeded, the backup and decoy landing sites soon received a message from General Command Headquarters.
The Expeditionary Army units at those landing sites could return to base to recuperate; join the reinforcements that followed and set out from the Plane Portal landing site; or hold their positions and use the landing sites as bases from which to capture territory.
The Skeleton Legion faced no pressure to defend, so they didn't return to base through the portal. Instead, they used their landing site as a base and counterattacked the Indigenous Allied Forces that had surrounded them.
The Plane Portal landing site was the main