Know yourself and know your enemy, and you’ll never be defeated.
What Caelan was doing now was exactly that—probing and mapping out the Supre Staff Legion’s true foundation as thoroughly as possible.
In the end, the conclusion he reached was simple:
This D7 region was indeed a critical core of the Supre Staff Legion... but it wasn’t their entire base.
Thinking about it carefully, that wasn’t hard to understand.
After all, the Supre Staff Legion was a top-tier legion on par with the Ironclad Legion.
Even the Ironclad Legion had four core regions—east, west, south, and north—so it only made sense that the Supre Staff Legion would have multiple core strongholds as well.
But...
The D7 region in front of him was absolutely one of the Supre Staff Legion’s core nests!
How could Caelan be so sure?
Aside from the intel he’d already obtained, there was one extrely important reason:
The defensive formations here were outrageously luxurious.
Large protective arrays layered over smaller ones. Full-coverage arrays nested around partial arrays. One stack wrapped inside another stack.
All added up, there were easily over a hundred layers of protective formations!
The amount of resources consud—various magic crystals and materials—was beyond counting.
So there was no doubt about it.
This place was one of the Supre Staff Legion’s core strongholds!
At the sa ti, Caelan also noticed that the hidden mbers stationed here were all frighteningly strong.
[Na: Atamu]
[Class: Arcane Guardian Knight]
[Level: 286 (5-Star Peak)]
[HP: 26188]
[Mana: 12123]
[Strength: 36029]
[Spirit: 21688]
[Agility: 21389]
[Skills: Knight’s Heart, Defensive Formation, Knight’s Protection...]
...
[Na: Leonardo]
[Class: Infernal Summoning Mage]
[Level: 319 (6-Star)]
[HP: 16188]
[Mana: 81230]
[Strength: 6029]
[Spirit: 26880]
[Agility: 1369]
[Skills: Skeleton Revival, Lant of the Living Dead, Tombstone Collapse...]
...
Caelan hadn’t expected there to be a 6-star awakener here.
After all, he’d only just reached 3-star. There was still a long distance between him and 6-star.
So it was obvious—the Supre Staff Legion’s power truly matched their status as a top-tier legion.
But to Caelan...
None of that really mattered.
Since they’d decided to make trouble for him, he’d return the favor.
Of course, revenge itself wasn’t important.
What mattered was that these Supre Staff Legion mbers...
They were all living, breathing points.
At that thought, a greedy glint flashed through Caelan’s eyes.
He could practically see the [Sacred Rings] shining brilliantly and calling out to him!
...
anwhile, inside the Supre Staff Legion’s stronghold—
In the conference room, a large number of commanders and intelligence officers were rushing around, discussing the battle situation in heated voices.
"Summarize the current intel. Do we have any updates from our strike on the Ironclad Legion’s C4 camp?"
However, even after multiple searches and checks, the intelligence team still got no response.
In that instant, the atmosphere in the room grew heavy.
Everyone present was elite.
According to their operational protocol, every fifteen minutes, they were required to report the latest battlefield status back to command, so command could adjust the next phase’s objectives.
But now...
A full twenty-three minutes had passed.
And the C4 area still hadn’t sent back a single ssage.
No one spoke, but everyone was thinking the sa thing:
This operation might have failed.
After a brief silence, the vice commander frowned and issued new orders.
"Continue searching for intelligence from the C4 front. In addition, mobilize a batch of personnel and reinforce defense of our D7 core region."
"We only caught the Ironclad Legion off guard. Their actual combat strength is still very solid. We must remain cautious."
"Right—how is the Ironclad Legion’s offensive against the Holy Monk Legion going?"
This ti, the intelligence team didn’t disappoint.
News ca back quickly.
"According to the latest report, both sides are deadlocked. The Ironclad Legion only managed to seize half a mine. You could say they got absolutely wrecked by this move!"
Hearing that, the vice commander’s expression gradually eased.
In fact, up to this point, the Supre Staff Legion had already taken a full two mines from the Ironclad Legion.
Even if the Ironclad Legion eventually took one mine back, they’d still be down by one overall!
In other words—when all was said and done, the Supre Staff Legion would still profit.
The conference room atmosphere imdiately relaxed, light and comfortable.
If the C4 region was fully occupied, the Supre Staff Legion’s gains would expand even further—
Because besides a mine, the C4 region also contained a rare dicinal plant cultivation基地.
Thinking of that, the vice commander felt a surge of excitent in his chest.
He turned around and looked out through the enormous floor-to-ceiling window, gazing up at the sky outside.
"As expected... the future of our Supre Staff Legion is as dazzling and glorious as this sun!"
But then—
The vice commander suddenly sensed sothing wrong.
Wait.
This is inside the [Arena of Races].
There shouldn’t be a sun here!
So what the hell was that sun-like thing!?
In the blink of an eye, cold sweat burst from the vice commander’s back.
He rubbed his eyes, voice trembling as he asked the subordinates beside him:
"Do... do you see that light?"
Several subordinates were already wearing expressions of utter disbelief.
"A sun... a sun appeared in the [Arena of Races]? That’s impossible!"
"Idiot, look carefully! That’s not a sun—that’s a damn dragon!"
"My god... a dragon as huge as the sun... where the hell did it co from?!"
"Don’t you think... this dragon looks like it’s coming straight at us?!"
...
In the next instant, an ear-splitting alarm blared through the conference room.
Everyone present thought of retreating imdiately.
But what they didn’t expect was that the dragon’s descent was far faster than anything they’d imagined!
That overwhelming, mountain-crushing pressure—
It made despair bloom in their hearts.
Even the headquarters building—more than ten stories tall—was only as high as the dragon’s shin!
The dragon didn’t even need to roar.
So awakeners with weaker minds collapsed directly to the floor.
Despair.
Pure despair.
What kind of terrifying existence were they about to face!?
"Where the hell did this dragon co from?! Why is my detection spell not working?!"
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