Next, the moment of massive casualties began.
The first to die were the close-combat personnel.
In such a terrifying battlefield, teeming with tens of thousands, an individual's toughness was nearly negligible.
The front rank consisted of a large contingent of close-combat professionals, some launching area-of-effect attacks, while others focused on single-target takedowns.
The back ranks, meanwhile, unleashed a dazzling barrage of long-range damage, continuously carpet-bombing the area.
Support-type professionals did their best to provide damage reduction, recovery, and shields. Even so, rapid deaths among the front lines were unavoidable.
In a short while, thousands of frontline fighters had fallen.
In their final moments, many of them yearned for what ordinary people desired: to take cover in the safety zones and escape this Disaster.
But there was no other way.
In the face of danger, responsibility was the only option!
