The battlefield had become a meat grinder.
The casualty ratio between the invaders and the people of the Safe Zone had exceeded one to a hundred.
Neither William nor Gu Weirong could accept those casualty figures.
William had brought out all the First Domain's powerful fighters, along with the elites of three other domains. Only by drawing on their decades-long head start over the Eighth Domain in sequence abilities had he assembled an army of over a hundred thousand experts, all at Origin Sequence Level Three or above.
This time, they intended to bring a lion's full strength against a rabbit, cut through the chaos with overwhelming force, and conquer the Eighth Domain completely.
Yet now, each soldier could only take down one or two hundred natives on average.
Even setting aside whether that casualty ratio could secure victory, the Eighth Domain had over a hundred million people and tens of millions of Sequence Ability Users, all willing to fight to the death rather than surrender. Even if every last invader died fighting, they still could not take the Eighth Domain.
If they suffered devastating losses today with little to show for them, it would deal a tremendous blow to all four of their domains.
For Gu Weirong, meanwhile, the people stood unwavering against the powerful invaders' attacks. Countless people became corpses before they even had a chance to strike.
In just two or three minutes of fighting, each engaged War Readiness Zone had suffered at least a thousand casualties. Across the hundred-plus War Readiness Zones caught up in the fighting, more than two hundred thousand people had already died.
"Secretary-General Gu, the melee has begun. The enemy no longer has time to lie in ambush and keep watch on us. I'll take the Mobile Defense Fortress troops in to