"Boom." "Boom." "Boom"...
Dusk was falling when neat, heavy footsteps suddenly rang out along one of Iron Dragon City's main avenues, pounding against the hearts of every pedestrian on both sides of the street like war drums.
People kept poking their heads out of windows from the Lightning shops, taverns, and houses lining the street to look outside. The pedestrians on the road all stopped and turned toward the source of the sound. There, a column of Torch Dragon Legion warriors whose end could not be seen at a glance had appeared on the avenue, jogging forward in synchronized, solemn strides.
Every Torch Dragon Legion warrior who appeared on this main avenue of Iron Dragon City wore full-body crimson alloy armor and carried weapons of every kind, as if they were heading into battle.
The formation of over ten thousand men advanced silently down the street like a fire dragon. At every instant, ten thousand feet lifted together, or ten thousand feet came down together. The entire formation had only one sound of footsteps. Their heavy armor and combat boots made that sound all the more thunderous, as though giants were striding through the city.
Behind the formation, the newest Iron Dragon Type 3 multipurpose tracked armored vehicles, only finalized for production in Iron Dragon City last year, rumbled forward one after another.
The same scene was unfolding at the very same time on different streets throughout Iron Dragon City.
Part of the Torch Dragon Legion had begun entering the city.
The pedestrians in the streets and those craning their heads out of windows were first surprised, then shocked, and finally utterly unable to make sense of it—could this be another drill...
Since Iron Dragon City had been founded, scenes like this had occurred twice before, but both had been