From the moment the first raindrop fell to when the rain came pouring down from the sky in sheets, only the blink of an eye had passed.
Amid the downpour, the flames burning in the ruins of the buildings south of Coldwater City had weakened considerably, yet many fires ignited by Blastflame Incendiary Bombs still burned stubbornly in the rain. The flames turned the raindrops and moisture in the air into steam, shrouding everything in haze and making it even harder to see far.
The sound of raindrops striking the ruins on the ground was not particularly loud, but it was enough to completely conceal the footsteps of Hobenstock and his men. Within the rain and mist, Hobenstock and the nine men under his command swiftly reached their assigned assault positions. One by one, they waited for Hobenstock's order, ready to rush into the building that had already collapsed halfway.
By this point in the Holy War, among all elite frontline units, battle soldiers from Level Two to Level Five had basically climbed into aircraft and armored vehicles to operate those machines. Operating machinery did not require particularly great combat strength, yet those machines could inflict immense casualties on the enemy. Two Level Two battle soldiers flying an aircraft could very well turn a Level Nine Winged Devil into a fireball in the sky. In the eyes of those important figures, that was a profitable trade. Warriors like Hobenstock, who had already advanced to Level Nine, instead became the main force fighting the enemy on the ground with real blades and real blood in wars to seize cities.
Hobenstock led an elite special operations squad from the special agent regiment directly under the Third Brigade, First Field Infantry Regiment, Sixth Royal Legion of the Ota Empire. Aside from Hobenstock, the