When the deck collapsed, even the First Combat Group and Second Combat Group—formed by the Emperor and composed of a mixed force of Gene-modded Warriors and ordinary Void Operations Army troops—fell into chaos for a short time. Large numbers of armored vehicles, ammunition transports, mobile radar detection vehicles, short-range artillery, and other equipment plunged into the steel fissure in the deck. Electrical sparks and smoke rose from the deck's ulcer-like wound. The crack lay directly along the tangent line of the encirclement formed by the Human Army, swallowing the relatively concentrated short-range Artillery Positions in the narrow terrain—including heavy mortar carriers, Assault Tanks, and other wheeled and tracked armored vehicles—into the bottom of a bottomless gorge. This created immense difficulties for command in dispatching forces and calculating losses. Heavy casualties appeared in an instant, and the chain of command fractured for a time. In less than a minute, the entire battlefield had been completely divided. The unaffected troops were temporarily unable to receive directives from above, while the forces that had suffered losses in the deck collapse began to save themselves.
Black Bolt blinked his dry eyes.
He had already reached another front. As usual, he had blocked the Human Army's advance, destroying several Armored Personnel Carriers and Gene-modded Warriors forged from steel with his own power. Then one of his subordinates delivered a speech, calling on the Inhumans present to cast aside the prejudices between clans and unite against the enemy. The mission had proceeded smoothly. Almost nothing could stop Black Bolt's advance, whether building wreckage or heavy armored vehicles. Just as he was about to speak again, violent shaking and a tremendous boom from afar disrupted his plan. Several Gene-modded Warriors who had firmly secured themselves to the deck took the opportunity to open fire, killing several members