Chapter 425: the bleak future

5th day of the Mocan-Spartan War.

The first 2 days of the invasion were the days of shock and surprise, the next 2 days were the days of realization and despair to the normal Spartan citizens, while to the soldiers it was the days of the retaliation.

On the 5th day, today, the battle at the Presidential Villa was still raging on. The only difference was that both armies now rotated shifts to rest, recover their strength, and battle again.

The Spartan soldiers were able to hold on and stabilize the harrowing situation a bit, but they were still slowly losing ground to their enemies.

On the 3rd day, the Mocan soldiers tried, making use of the advantage given to them by their 5 warships to batter hard at the Spartans but the defense of the Presidential Villa still held.

Every other day, the defense of the Presidential Villa slowly withered. This was because as the Spartan war resources were slowly exhausted, their counterparts only revealed more.

Both countries had the war resources to support a 20-year war if it was in normal situations back in the 21st century, but in this era, wars involving high-grade soldiers swallowed too much money and resources.

Not only did the high-grade soldiers need expensive weapons and gadgets to express their power fully, but they were also able to cause destruction that could render millions of credits null.

And besides, the intensity of the battle being pushed by the Mocans meant that the war resources were being depleted at least 20 times faster than normal.

If not for the deep reserves of the Spartan republic and its sturdy foundation, there was no doubt that the Mocans would have overrun the country already.

A week, that was the conservative estimate that the Spartan republic calculated that their war resources would last.

To the Spartan republic, this was an unacceptable situation as losing all their war resources would leave them vulnerable to further invasion attacks from opportunistic countries if they ever survived the Mocan invasion.

This was the law of this era where high-grade soldiers reigned; ally together to fight when a big enemy arrives but take advantage of your ally when the big enemy leaves and the situation is right.

Though the meticulous plan led by Commander Arthur brought a significant difference to the battlefield, it didn’t do much as there were Mocan Commanders to restrict him and Commander Rashford.

For Clark and the others, after going at it with their all for over a day, the fatigue started seeping in and they had no choice but to rest and start battling in shifts.

Since becoming a high-grade soldier, Clark has never felt so exhausted.

It was like he was a bot; battle, kill, rest, then repeating the sequence was the only thing in his mind for the past 3 days. He feared that if this continued, he would soon lose his sanity.

The last defense of the Presidential Villa was still standing, but it was now severely damaged and faltering at the edge of being shattered.

The dome-shaped defensive structure was already at the brink of being shattered, repeated bombardments from the Mocan warships were not something that could be nonchalantly resisted.

The Spartan soldiers still fought with conviction, but thousands of them already died and they were slowly being pushed to the edge of the dome-shaped defensive structure.

If this trend continued, it would be less than a day before the Mocan forces breached the defense structure and officially invade inside the Presidential Villa.

Perhaps, it was taunting or they were serious about it, but the Mocan President already started sending messages through his soldiers, demanding the Spartan Republic to surrender.

The humiliation from this was so much that the Spartan soldiers fought in a more frenzied manner, but it hardly helped matters.

Unless a miracle happened, it was already pretty evident that the Mocan Republic would emerge as the victors of this war though amid severe losses.

Even the pride of the Spartan army, the Star Shatterer already suffered a blow that left a part of its enormous metallic body damaged.

It could still participate in the battle, but the psychological damage from this to the Spartan soldiers was immense.

This was even more prominent and morale draining when the damage was done by the strongest warship of the Mocan Republic- the Leviathan.

The situation was bleak.

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Southern Sparta, Vatican City.

Despite the reinforcement from the Pendragon mercenary organization, the condition of the city kept on getting worse as the days went by.

On the 4th day, the Mocan soldiers barely resisting the Vatican forces finally received reinforcements. As the days went, more Spartan cities succumbed, and the Mocan soldiers from those areas became reinforcement to other areas.

In just 5 days, cities have been destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people already died to the wanton destruction.

Already recognized as a target by the Mocan republic higher-ups, most of the reinforcements came to Vatican City to put down this tough enemy.

Vatican City was now a fragment of its former self. The city was still just recovering from the Persian tigers battle, this war was like adding salt to their injury when they needed to recuperate the most.

Though the mercenary organization and the Dragon military division tried their best to stabilize things and keep all the civilians safe, the unrelenting attacks of their enemies undoubtedly resulted in more civilian casualties.

Even some of the underground shelters were already breached, and the Mocans showed no mercy, massacring everyone, both children and adults.

The fact that the Dome Shield’s energy reserves were already depleted worsened the situation as it was originally the best defense structure of the city.

With this gone, even more, soldiers died to the unrelenting attacks of the Mocan soldiers. Josh and King gave their all, but faced with the war machines of the enemies specially targeted at them, they could only be restrained.

They still spread destruction and death, but the frequency was far lower than their normal frequency. Slowly but surely, Vatican City was also being taken.

The future was bleak.