Under the Undead Empire's mobilization system, level-three readiness was the lowest alert level. It merely recalled officers from leave and raised the alert level of garrison troops everywhere.
Only at level two or above would the Reserve Forces be called up and civilian training intensified.
Meanwhile, as the vanguard Mecha corps pressed forward, fighting officially broke out with the Fire God Army.
It had to be said that although Balti had brought few troops, they were elite. They were formidable in battle and high in morale, and they dealt Green's side a crushing blow the moment fighting began.
Their powerful firepower and armor enhanced by Flame God's Blessing gave them unparalleled combat strength.
That armor was especially formidable. Among the Titan Race, the Fire God was also the god of forging, and his blessing had a tremendous effect on weapons and equipment.
When the first clash broke out, it took barely a dozen minutes for Green's side to suffer losses at a two-to-one ratio.
The soldiers, accustomed to an equipment advantage and even crushing their enemies outright, had trouble adjusting.
Fortunately, they had numbers on their side. Once the initial surprise passed, the battle line soon stabilized. To the powerful, ringing strains of "Soviet March" booming from the giant speakers behind them, agile Centaurs began circling around the flanks, while the Dragon-Hunting Rifles' extraordinary range began to show its worth.
The Fire God Army's soldiers might have been armed to the teeth in Enchanted Armor, but even the sturdiest armor would fail if it took too many hits and was pushed past its limit.
Add the dense barrage of cannonballs raining down on them, and their equipment advantage vanished in the blink of an eye.
Thousands of Centaurs galloped across the plain, raising vast clouds of dust behind them. They