Of the millions of dead in Europe, many had been transformed into feral, vampiric ghouls. While blood parasites and blood oaks waged precision terror attacks around the world, the superhuman, supernatural ghoul horde was unleashed on the military forces working to take back Europe.The military bases in France and Slovakia were once again in full operation, and in a monitoring room, drone footage was being displayed on a large screen. It showed ghouls moving like a tide in the ruined outskirts of a city all but levelled to the ground. The military units they swarmed towards were far fewer in number, but organised into formations and supported by vehicles and emplaced weaponry.The ghouls moved with mindless aggression, ignoring the terrain to clamber over anything in their path. Abandoned vehicles, the shattered remnants of walls. Piles of their own dead. The soldiers took the opposite approach, maximising every advantage the terrain could offer. They positioned themselves to establish choke points and kills boxes. Lines of retreat let them fall back from positions in danger of being overrun. They were hunters, carefully bleeding the rampaging beast that was the ghoul horde, letting it exhaust itself.The soldiers had no shortage of magically enhanced firearms, but the more exotic weapons stole the show. Fire rained down on the ghouls from mortars launching cluster bombs filled with alchemical napalm. Heavy machine guns mounted on vehicles fired explosive rounds that tore apart the surging wall of bodies. Gas grenades caused anything organic their fumes touched to burn like thermite. Coil guns fired electricity that arced from ghoul to ghoul. The imparted energy rocked some back and knocked others over. Some exploded on contact.The losses for the ghouls were egregious but they never stopped coming, having no morale to lose. With no sign of their numbers waning, they kept launching themselves into destruction. Two people were in the home-cinema (...)