BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM-!!!
The roar of explosions crashed back and forth between heaven and earth like an endless barrage of thunder.
Shock waves traveled outward through the crust, making the ground tremble slightly for dozens of kilometers around.
Flames, thick smoke, and scorching blasts of air completely engulfed the area around the Ten-Tails. The ground was repeatedly plowed flat, scorched, and blasted apart, leaving craters dozens of meters across and stretches of charred earth several kilometers long.
At that moment, the eyes of the world were focused on the Rabbit Nation.
The kilometer-scale creature that had appeared on the outskirts of Upper Capital was too enormous, and its energy fluctuations too violent, for there to be any hope of concealing it.
From the Bald Eagle's Defense Support Program satellite constellation to Europa's space-based radar systems.
Every country in the world with space-based monitoring capabilities had turned its cameras toward that fire-covered area.
That day, the encrypted communications channels of intelligence agencies around the world were busier than ever before. Satellite images were transmitted at the highest priority to underground command centers in several capitals across the globe.
Within the Rabbit Nation, meanwhile, the effects of this battle were reaching countless households in the most direct way possible.
Upper Capital's urban district.
Urgent, piercing air-raid sirens sounded simultaneously from broadcast towers and mobile warning vehicles throughout the city.
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Three long blasts and one short, spaced at regular intervals, echoed between the city's high-rises.
Clear, steady announcements came from the loudspeakers lining the streets:
"Attention, all residents. Attention, all residents-the Upper Capital Emergency Management Bureau has issued an emergency evacuation notice. All residents must follow the instructions of personnel on-site and proceed in an orderly manner to the nearest underground parking garage, civil defense facility, or designated shelter.
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