Yaxes was blown away by the violent shock wave and landed on the scorched permafrost, narrowing its eyes as it watched a mushroom cloud slowly rise in the distance.
The corners of its mouth lifted slightly.
Just as expected.
Everything was going according to its plan.
Yaxes withdrew its gaze and continued unhurriedly intercepting those "safe" conventional missiles.
Nuclear bombs?
Sorry, those things were reserved for those fools.
Tianxiong and Tianyong Underground Cities were Great Xia's southernmost frontier strongholds in Antarctica.
They were only a little over a hundred kilometers from the ruins of Eagle Country's Freedom Underground City as the crow flew.
Saturation strikes from orbital weapons and long-range missiles had scoured the Demon Clan from Freedom's surface again and again.
But everyone knew that long-range firepower alone could not solve the problem completely.
The space wormhole spewing out endless members of the Demon Clan lay hidden nearly a thousand meters underground.
No matter how hard the missiles bombarded it, they were only scratching the surface.
To truly seal that opening, or at least completely contain the Demon Clan's expansion across the surface, someone had to go up there.
They had to build a wall of steel and flesh to stop any that might slip through!
The highest order from Elder Zhao in Tianshu Underground City reached Tianxiong and Tianyong at 4:12 a.m.
"Assemble the army and deploy immediately. Contain the Demon Clan's expansion on the surface at all costs and build a firewall!"
When Lin Shigong, the lord of Tianxiong City, received the order, he was standing in the Command Center, staring at live satellite footage.
Freedom's surface had already been bombed into a scorched, blackened purgatory.
White smoke rose from the deep craters gouged out by tungsten-alloy armor-piercing shells, and the mushroom clouds left by the