Delan City, the major northern stronghold of the Saipan Republic, was the first city still putting up tenacious resistance that the Devil Race legions encountered after breaking through the Selnes Human Defense Line.
From the first demonized puppet falling beneath Delan City's steam ballistae to the city being submerged by demonized puppets, the city held out for three days.
Over those three days, more than two hundred thousand demonized puppets fell outside the city. For a city without a Knight stationed there, once a Knight from the Devil Race's vanguard legion shattered one of Delan City's gates with a powerful combat skill at dusk yesterday, and demonized puppets surged through the gate like a flood, the city's fall was inevitable.
Amid the flames soaring into the sky across the city, Delan City's defenders fought the demonized puppets in a bloody battle throughout the night. By the latter half of the night, the sounds of slaughter within the city had ceased. Delan City's brave defenders had all perished, and Delan City fell into the Devil Race's hands.
At dawn today, the Devil Race's vanguard legion, having suffered a minor setback beneath Delan City, had already departed. Like locusts sweeping across the earth, they continued pouncing toward the next human city. By evening, more than three million demonized puppets from the Devil Race's central legion arrived in Delan City and temporarily settled there.
The Devil Race's three great legions—the vanguard, central, and rear legions—maintained a marching interval of a little over half a day between one another. Like three terrifying monsters, they charged headlong ahead, tearing apart every human city and nation standing in their way as if they were slabs of fat meat. Ever since seeing Scala's corpse, Keze had looked as though he wanted to devour people alive these past