The Iron Mongers lived up to expectations.
The monster assault slamd into their defensive line and stopped cold.
Naturally, Drex Valen had made sure of that. There was no way he was going to let his company's flagship weapons platforms get ripped apart in public after five minutes of combat.
That would've been embarrassing.
At the sa ti, BladeTech Industries' private security forces deployed in full War Machine armor.
"Move! Move!"
The squad captain's voice shook despite the amplified speakers in his helt.
He was terrified.
Most of them were.
But fear stopped mattering once their families were sowhere inside the evacuation zones.
So they fought.
Every War Machine suit carried a secondary Vibranium alloy coating developed by Drex himself. Its defensive capability had already beco famous worldwide.
And in their hands?
The Ravager.
A portable rotary cannon built for anti-monster warfare.
The ammunition used Drex's unreleased experintal propellant system, a new explosive compound that tripled projectile force while dramatically improving range, ballistic stability, and accuracy.
Combined with Vibranium-tipped rounds, the Ravager beca a monster in its own right.
BRRRRRRTTTT!
The streets erupted in streams of tracer fire.
Rounds tore into the charging monsters like industrial shredders. Bodies exploded apart instantly under the overwhelming hail of firepower.
The upgraded rotary cannons hit with force comparable to close-range anti-aircraft systems. Against flesh and bone, the effect was grotesque.
Limbs spiraled through the air.
Blood mist painted the streets.
Chunks of at splattered across shattered storefronts.
Many monsters died so quickly they never even had ti to scream.
A Tiger-Level creature lunged toward one of the War Machine troopers, only for dozens of rounds to rip through its torso mid-charge.
The projectiles corkscrewed through its insides, blasting open fist-sized cavities through muscle and organs.
The monster collapsed half-paralyzed before it could even swing.
BladeTech's drone division entered the battlefield monts later.
Each drone carried a hundred micro-missiles loaded with Drex's experintal explosives.
Traditional explosives didn't scale efficiently. Increasing explosive mass mostly expanded the blast radius rather than proportionally multiplying destructive force.
Drex's formula ignored those limitations entirely.
One kilogram of his compound generated explosive pressure and thermal output nearly ten tis greater than standard TNT.
The battlefield beca hell almost imdiately.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Missiles rained into monster clusters.
Shockwaves rolled through the streets alongside walls of fire and pulverized debris. Several monsters were blasted off their feet instantly.
Then ca the secondary detonations.
The creatures trying to stand back up vanished under expanding fireballs, torn apart like rag dolls caught in turbine engines.
"Push the evacuation route!"
BladeTech personnel rapidly established defensive corridors for civilians.
anwhile, the towering Iron Mongers unleashed even heavier versions of the Ravager platform.
Larger caliber.
Larger payloads.
Catastrophically larger damage output.
THOOM! THOOM!
Two precision bursts detonated across the battlefield.
A gigantic Deep Sea Clan brute lost its upper body entirely in a cloud of shredded flesh and atomized bone. The remains of its massive tail spun across the street and smashed into several black insectoid monsters nearby.
The lead beetle-creature shrieked as cracks spread across its glossy armored shell.
These insect-type monsters had been designed by Drex personally.
Fast.
Aggressive.
Durable.
They zigzagged through streams of gunfire at terrifying speeds, many bullets ricocheting harmlessly off their armored exoskeletons in showers of sparks.
But the monsters themselves knew the truth.
The impacts hurt.
Badly.
And too many direct hits would absolutely kill them.
One Iron Monger tracked the insect swarm and rotated its rotary cannon downward.
BRRRRRT!
The stream of fire saturated the entire block.
Concrete exploded apart.
Buildings lost entire exterior layers under the bombardnt.
Monster bodies burst apart one after another.
The black beetle monsters survived barely two seconds before several were launched screaming into the air and shredded apart mid-flight.
Above them, the drones dumped nearly a quarter of their missile payloads at once.
Dozens of rockets blanketed the district.
The resulting explosion swallowed entire streets.
When the firestorm finally cleared, anything too slow to escape had been reduced to twitching fragnts.
Even then, the Iron Mongers continued firing into larger corpses just to be safe.
Nobody wanted surprises.
Watching BladeTech's overwhelming firepower tear through the battlefield, civilians finally began calming down.
None of them realized this entire engagent was essentially a controlled demonstration.
Drex had deliberately avoided sending higher-tier monsters into this district.
No Demon-Level threats.
No Dragon-Level horrors.
Just enough pressure to showcase the effectiveness of BladeTech weapon systems.
Marketing through urban warfare.
Very Drex.
BANG!
High atop a hundred-story tower, a sniper watched through his scope as another monster's skull exploded apart in a spray of blood.
The corpse twitched and collapsed.
"Thirty-six," he muttered proudly. "Born for this job."
His weapon barely resembled a conventional sniper rifle anymore.
The massive anti-material platform fired twenty-milliter Vibranium rounds powerful enough that only armored War Machine operators could carry it effectively.
Its destructive capability bordered on absurd.
BANG!
Far below, an elephant-sized monster's head detonated sideways.
The creature kept moving anyway.
Barely.
Two of its legs had already been blown off, and most of its body looked like raw hamburger.
Nearby War Machine troopers imdiately joined in.
BANG! BANG!
Two more armor-piercing shots slamd into the exact sa wound.
Finally, the monster collapsed for good.
Elsewhere, the situation looked far worse.
Hulk was locked in brutal hand-to-hand combat against a towering insectoid monster.
"I am the Demon-Level monster… Bug God!"
The creature's armor plating was monstrously durable, and its physical strength rivaled Hulk's own.
Worse, it possessed a transford state it hadn't even used yet.
Bug God had ripped through an entire military defense line before Hulk arrived. Without him, the casualties would have been catastrophic.
Even now, Hulk could only hold Bug God in place while countless other monsters continued attacking nearby sectors.
The Hero Bureau's superhero forces were stretched impossibly thin.
The entire world was under attack simultaneously.
And then there was the giant.
Far across the city skyline, a colossal humanoid monster more than a hundred ters tall rampaged through downtown districts.
"I am the Demon-Level monster… Giant Brother!"
Every casual swing of its arm flattened hundreds of ters of infrastructure.
The physics alone were horrifying.
A creature that massive should barely have been able to move under its own weight, yet it retained terrifying agility. The sheer force displaced by its movents compressed the atmosphere itself into a weapon.
For the giant, air had effectively beco a battering ram.
Every motion generated invisible shockwaves powerful enough to smash skyscrapers apart.
And the city was running out of ti.
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