What Gaen hadn’t expected was that the New Alliance’s high-intensity offensive lasted for three whole days.3

During those three days, rifle-bearing light infantry poured in from several entrances on the northern edge of Brocade Lake Municipality, clashing fiercely with his tribesmen in streets, alleys, and abandoned stairwells.0

Both sides suffered heavy losses.0

According to reports from his warriors, over a thousand clansmen had already died in street fighting against human soldiers, including quite a few hulking mechanically modified beasts.0

Of course, the New Alliance’s casualties were no less.0

Corpses piled like hills at the alleys, blood staining whole highways red.2

Yet the humans charged on fearlessly, firing while howling words the...1