Chapter Fifty-Two Jia’s heart thundered as she skimmed the different camera feeds without taking her attention off the foes right in front of her. A horde of enemies blocked the path of her team. The Core forces had managed to successfully land a transport despite brutal pounding by Army airpower. Scores of enemy reinforcements had poured out of the thing before streams of rockets from above turned it into a fiery wreck. The scattered enemy survivors of the initial invasion had rallied into small armies and were pressing back the defenders. Jia’s greater concern was that the flow of battle had resulted in the civilian crowd fleeing in two main directions. One direction aided evacuation efforts in that it took people away from the area closest to the stage and the heaviest fighting. The