"Huh? You're saying a bunch of Mecha soldiers suddenly appeared among those sinners and wiped out our elite Mecha troops? What kind of joke is that? Where would those sinners get that kind of capability?"
"It's true. The troops responsible for clearing out the capital of the former Moli Duchy, now the C18 Sinner Nation, sent word back requesting immediate missile support to completely destroy that area!"
"Tch, those scions of the great nobles just don't want to fight anymore. They made up some random excuse to get us lesser nobles to finish things quickly for them so they can go off and have fun.
"You actually believe that? If those sinners really had the technology to resist our country's elite Mecha troops, would they have spent all these years enslaved by us?
"Even taking the most unlikely possibility, if they really could do something like that, people with technology like that should have become His Majesty the Emperor's vassal state, not spent hundreds of years as sinners."
Inside the Gatam Empire's C18 District clearance force command post.
Battle reports kept coming in from across the Moli Duchy.
Only the situation in the C18 District had gone wrong.
Even where there were Resistance Army members elsewhere, they were only a handful of people using old-model machines that had been obsolete for hundreds of years, easily crushed by their mass-produced models.
To the people of Gatam, as long as Mecha kept advancing through new iterations, the old ones could never defeat the new generation.
Even highly skilled Mecha pilots struggled to make up for those differences.
So His Majesty the Emperor's war to purge the sinners was nothing more than a one-sided opportunity to earn military merit.
No one thought there would be any powerful resistance.
"Then, should we provide support?"