When Evil Titan No. 1 saw Chen Si and Yasuo fly away, it went berserk and charged toward a populated area.
The residents of the streets near the abandoned hospital had been listening to the constant rumbling in the distance, assuming the Mid-East soldiers were conducting military exercises. Even though the noise disturbed their sleep late at night, they dared not voice their anger.
Then a Titan suddenly charged into the residential district and began a massacre. That single Titan reduced half the nearby town to rubble, sending crowds of residents fleeing.
The commotion alerted the nearest Mid-East military garrison. Believing Marley had launched a surprise attack, they immediately dispatched large numbers of troops. Discovering a Titan only confirmed their suspicions, and a battle erupted around the abandoned hospital.
Late that night, the Mid-East legislators were jolted awake one after another by the ringing of old-fashioned telephones, cursing this recently introduced technology.
But once they heard the news, they hurried to Parliament in alarm.
At dawn, Cornell, a Mid-East diplomat seething with anger, set off by car for the Marley embassy.
Before Cornell arrived, citizens and victims' families had already surrounded the Marley embassy so tightly that no one could get through. Bricks, vegetables, and stones rained down on the building, while hundreds of people charged its tightly shut gates. Abel, the Marley ambassador, was utterly bewildered and had no idea what had happened.
Since the embassy's telephone lines did not connect to Marley, Abel could only send urgent telegram after urgent telegram to Marley's Military Headquarters and the Tybur Family, sweat pouring off him.
Gniez, Marley's command headquarters.
"Damn it! What the hell is wrong with the Mid-East now?" Sissoff demanded furiously.
"The Mid-East is looking down on us just because we abandoned Sparta Fortress. Marley's Warrior Unit has