Chapter 585: "War of the gods"
Although the first clashes had been ambushes, the human forces still suffered losses on all three battlefields.
On the other two battlefields, Russian and British casualties numbered around three hundred each. The United States' Skeleton Division suffered the worst losses, with roughly a thousand casualties.
Although the humans had overwhelmingly dominated the fighting that night, every successful demon counterattack brought casualties. Any demon with enough strength left to retaliate was naturally powerful, and a considerable number of them had awakened magic power.
They were called casualties, but battles like these actually left very few wounded. Almost all were fatalities. Those who truly were wounded had mostly been struck by flying rocks, shrapnel, and the like.
A report was delivered to Baru's temporary desk, while the same battle data was sent back to Earth. Almost as soon as the information was transmitted and analyzed, several new tactical reports were sent to the Otherworld front.
These included two strategies and sets of tactics favored by military strategists, along with several reports based on computer simulations and analysis.
The military lines underwent various defensive adjustments accordingly. Meanwhile, teams of special "diplomats" were dispatched alongside members of the New Church of Light to the seats of power of the Otherworld's various factions and nations.
After the first blow, the demons did indeed restrain themselves. But that restraint was only superficial. In reality, they intensified their summoning of hell power.
Qin Xiaoxia was the first to discover this, because the speed at which the World Mother's power dragged that world along had noticeably begun to slow. The corrosion of hell power made it easier for certain special demons to extract the world's essence through Hell Spell Formations, while also connecting Hell more closely with this place.
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