First Light of a New Age

Chapter 38: Combined Forces

Austronesian Empire, Imperial Maharlika, Mindanao, General Santos City, In The Streets Of General Santos City.

2000, 2, 1st Week, January

The fighting in the streets was immensely fierce as demons with blade-like legs were moving as swiftly as the wind, and penetrating the defenses that were not finished yet. While the Imperial soldiers were being harassed by the flying, bottomless demons, at the same time on each and every corner of the streets shots were being fired. Moreover, it seemed like the demons had an endless supply of population, because no matter how many they killed, another one quickly replaced it.

Suddenly in the middle of the fierce fighting a fierce roar resounded throughout the battlefield. At that moment, an object that seemed like a debris flew in the sky, but when the soldiers took another look, it didn't seem to be a debris, but rather a demon, yes a demon, one that is extremely muscular on every inch of its body and could jump hundreds of meters into the air.

Upon jumping high above in the air, the muscular demon was able to grab a hold of a Thunderwing attack helicopter. To the horror of its crew, the helicopter went down and crashed into the ground along with the demon.

The impact of the muscular demon landing on the street crushed dozens of Imperial soldiers into a grisly meat paste, while others nearby were thrown back and suffered severe injuries. The other surviving Imperial soldiers swiftly moved in to rescue the wounded soldiers and had the Mobile Tank Fortress take care of the problem.

The Fortress quickly moved in and charged on the muscular demon, to which it knocked the monstrous creature down. Upon being knocked down, the muscular demon roared in anger, but this didn't scare the crew of the Fortress, instead it ignited their fiery spirit. With the muscular demon momentarily down, they immediately aimed the turret down and fired at point-blank range.

In an instant, the muscular demon's face was burned by the explosion, angering it even more. But as it was about to approach the Fortress even more aggressively, a ZTZ-999 super tank appeared on the side and fired at the demon's back, causing the demon to roar in pain as another tank fired at its chest, damaging it severely.

Three more tanks, which were the PT-101M Pahlawan Mark V, appeared and started providing fire support. At the same time, they both fired three shells that pierced through the creature's chest, which spilled crimson blood everywhere with pieces of flesh hanging around the streets, killing the abomination at last.

"Thank God, it finally died," one of the tank crew members on the Fortress said in relief.

"It took like six tanks to kill this thing, this thing is a beast... literally," another added.

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Earsplitting explosions followed one after another as the TA-16 Towed Artillery Rampart and the A-50 Self-Propelled-Artillery Paragon unleashed their bombardment.

In the sky dozens of AH-12 Thunderwings and AH-72 Heaven's Punch helicoptere were gunning down and ripping apart the demon lord Andromalius's demon army, using Hellfire missiles to destroy even the seemingly impenetrable Demonic Knights. Meanwhile, the F-12 Phoenixes were defending the sky from dragons and angelic-like demons, while the F-16 Phantoms were strafing at the ground as it pummeled through the demonic horde. However, no matter how much ammunition or superior firepower the Liberation Army was throwing at the demons that seemingly have an endless population.

Many attempts were made to destroy the portal, but it seemed like the demons possessed an interceptor guarding the portal. It became clear that the Liberation Army would have to take this fight to the Demon Lord himself. However, with the seemingly endless amount of population the demon army has, what could they possibly do to push them back?