Chapter 69 - The March (1)

The armored transports rumbled to life at precisely 0800 hours, their reinforced frames designed to carry awakened through hostile territory without becoming coffins on wheels. Each vehicle was a masterpiece of post-Awakening engineering, combining mundane materials with mana-infused alloys that could withstand attacks from B-rank threats and still maintain structural integrity. The engines themselves ran on a hybrid system—conventional fuel supplemented by concentrated mana cores that provided the power necessary to push through terrain that would stop ordinary vehicles dead in their tracks.