The surface of the sea churned violently, like boiling molten iron.
A black line stretching across the horizon surged forward at an astonishing speed.
One hundred and twenty thousand low-level Heart-eaters formed this vanguard of death.
The "Purgatory" launch platforms were the first to open fire. Red Lotus-II missiles turned into a meteor shower of death, precisely saturating the most densely packed areas of the Beast Tide.
Immediately after, the Spider Slayer and Peacekeeper formations on the coastline lit up their muzzles simultaneously.
Thousands of Magic Beams interwove into a web of light with no blind spots, instantly piercing and vaporizing the stragglers that had broken through the sea of fire.
In the sky, Storm Falcon squadrons swept past, their high-explosive bombs clearing out scattered clusters with surgical precision.
Everything was proceeding according to plan.
