The Jellies that had come along the Danube River did not pursue immediately. Instead, they directed the Xenomorphs to patrol Bucharest and clear out the remaining scattered enemy forces.
As long as the smog continued to blanket the city, the human army, deprived of its Ground-based Laser Weapon advantage, could not possibly match the Biological Weapons in this brutal face-to-face slaughter. The Xenomorphs would fight until the end of their lives, until the last one had been killed.
As time passed, these army soldiers would gradually descend from hope into despair, and their will to fight would slowly crumble. In this Capital Defense War, the enemy army had not given up until 50% of its soldiers had died. In the future, perhaps a casualty rate of only 30% would be enough to shatter their morale and strip them of all fighting spirit.
Half a month later, it was mid-December.
Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria had fallen in succession. The Association's army had pushed the front to the borders of central European nations such as Germany and Austria. The Northern European countries had fallen completely, and more than half of Europe had become Association territory.
The Commercial Alliance had originally possessed only a little over 500,000 troops across the entire European Theater. Its naval fleet had now been almost completely destroyed, while its army and Air Force had suffered losses exceeding 30% during more than a month of continuous attacks. Even with reserve troops replenishing them, only a little over 300,000 soldiers remained capable of confronting the Association head-on on the battlefield.
The smog covering the land had dispersed, and the gradually contracting defensive line began to show signs of reaching a stalemate. This was partly because the shortened front allowed the enemy's forces to concentrate more tightly and move