In just ten short days, the Devil Race army's advance had swept across more than half the Saipan Republic's territory. Following the Devil Race's central army, Zhang Tie witnessed one city after another fall...
After Delan City came Perigo, then Edlan, then Somibe, followed by Holbich, Kozlian, and Lei...
These cities had once all been flourishing human cities, none of them inferior to Black Flame City. Yet by the time the central army arrived, many had already become scorched earth. Along the way, abandoned towns and villages, fallow farmlands, and bones scattered by the roadside were too numerous to count. The brutality of the Holy War and the harm it inflicted upon humanity appeared before Zhang Tie's eyes again and again throughout those ten days.
After Delan City, the Devil Race army pushed south all the way and encountered almost no more organized, formal resistance. One human city after another had been abandoned and burned before the army arrived. Not merely these few cities—even the entire Saipan Republic now seemed to have become a land without people. Women and children had begun evacuating two years ago, while the soldiers had started withdrawing after the Selnes Human Defense Line collapsed. Especially after Delan City fell, the courage of the Saipan Republic's remaining troops seemed to have drained away all at once. No one was willing to hold a city to the death and wait for the Devil Race legions to arrive. As for that super Devil Race legion, Zhang Tie finally saw it with his own eyes once during those ten days. That was at Holbich.
Zhang Tie did not know how to describe the feeling of seeing that Devil Race legion. When nearly a hundred thousand level-nine Warriors suddenly stood before you, you would not know how to describe that