Chapter 1072: Chapter 584, The Alliance is too enticing
The Alliance has achieved resounding victories lately, but it’s also clear that so are bearing heavy burdens to achieve them.
Take Gu Hang for instance—he nearly got drained dry in the Battle of Bowang, but after ingesting a Neuron Progeny, he was reinvigorated.
The Interstellar Warriors are another group carrying the weight of progress.
Whenever there’s a ship capture operation, it’s always the Phoenix Battle Group that bites down on the critical parts, tearing them apart. Without these top-tier warriors, many victories wouldn’t have been possible.
But fighting battle after battle like this, including those stationed in the warships and fortresses, the Phoenix Battle Group has suffered close to five hundred casualties.
Half a unit wiped out.
For most battle groups, this kind of relentless fighting would be utterly unsustainable. Unless it’s a fight of particularly significant importance—an operation like sinking ships outright instead of forcing Interstellar Warriors to risk their lives to capture them—it’s not sothing anyone would agree to.
Not even with direct orders.
The Phoenix Battle Group followed orders anyway. Part of this is because Gu Hang holds considerable sway over them; another part is because Matins knows that the losses will be replenished quickly.
Unlike regular battle groups where losing half their brothers-in-arms would require endless years of selecting recruits, performing implant surgeries, and waiting for them to mature. Beyond that, turning fresh recruits into veterans or even core mbers could easily take decades.
For so less fortunate battle groups, recovering from a single devastating battle might take a century or more.
The Phoenix Battle Group is different.
Matins knows that as soon as he loses 500 warriors, in just a few months, Gu Hang will deliver 500 fresh recruits with Genetic Seed implants ready to report for duty.
Nowadays, even the Genetic Seed transplant surgeries no longer need to be perford by the group’s Apothecaries. The new recruits co from nurous planets across the Dragonhawk Star Domain.
These recruits will rapidly beco fierce, battle-hardened warriors, no weaker than veterans.
Given these conditions, what else could Matins say?
Under such circumstances, the decisions made by this battle group are fundantally different from others. The Phoenix Battle Group is now equipped with elite soldiers, cutting-edge gear, and even batch-deployed Phase Swords. Not to ntion that almost every mber is outfitted in “Colossal” Power Armor, which clearly outclasses typical Power Armor. Their Iron Knight Terminators surpass standard Indomitable Terminators as well…
Besides these two points, consider their unique traits: fearlessness, constant replenishnt, and super-fast recruitnt…
Matins feels his battle group has beco invincible.
Other battle groups? No, he even believes they could take on their parent group, the Phoenix Legion, without any issue. Phoenix indeed has more Champion Swordsn. The group as a whole, especially in close combat scenarios, has inherited swordsmanship skills that outshine those of the Phoenix Battle Group. Moreover, as a newly-founded battle group, Phoenix’s individual combat prowess is likely still superior, arguably operating at the sa elite tier.
Add their swordsmanship legacy, their advanced combat capabilities, and the techniques and equipnt passed down from the era when humanity built the great Empire… Newly-founded battle groups are the pinnacle when it cos to unit strength.
And Phoenix, among them, is the cream of the crop. Yes, perhaps their Genetic Seed compatibility isn’t perfect, which results in challenges in recruiting new warriors. Their sub-group numbers are small, and their population is sparse, which further impacts their political leverage at the broader Empire level. They couldn’t compete with the influence of larger battle groups. But their pursuit of perfection embedded in their Genetic Seeds, combined with their exceptional swordsmanship, makes them the absolute top combat force among all newly-founded battle groups.
Nonetheless, if Phoenix were to face the Phoenix Battle Group, considering the latter’s willingness to sacrifice and super-fast replenishnt rates, what could Phoenix even do?
Eventually, they’d be worn down and destroyed.
Under Gu Hang’s leadership, the Phoenix Battle Group truly lives up to its na—like a “Phoenix,” they are practically immortal.
Of course, this is contingent on them maintaining their integrated connection with the Alliance.
And in practice, that linkage isn’t likely to be severed. As Battle Group Leader, Matins understands this well. If he ever decided to break from the Alliance, wouldn’t every single mber of his unit think he was insane and imdiately tie him up to hand over to the Governor?
The only ones who might follow him into rebellion would be the other three veterans from the farthest reaches of the old deploynt series.
Oh, even they likely wouldn’t—especially Priest Rizzo, who definitely wouldn’t join.
Then again, Matins himself acknowledges the absurdity of such thoughts.
Under the Alliance’s system, he’s living a comfortable and privileged life; only a madman would think about leaving.
As far as Gu Hang is concerned, replenishing the Phoenix Battle Group with 500 fresh recruits primarily consus Gift Points.
Training a single elite veteran costs about 1,000 Gift Points per person within his battle group interface. This includes the Seed exchange, recruitnt, and training costs.
However, this ti, the actual expense won’t be that high.
While training the additional 40,000 Glory Guards, the selection process was essentially completed. The Glory Guards themselves were ticulously chosen using [Recruitnt Tokens]. Among them, the most outstanding candidates, generally aged around 16, capable of reaching T1 training standards, are considered pri candidates to beco Interstellar Warriors. Their Genetic Seed implant success rates are notably high.
Additionally, as the Phoenix Battle Group has been engaged in combat for five years now, they’ve managed to cultivate a batch of Genetic Seeds themselves. From the 400 warriors who fell in battle, most of their Genetic Seeds were successfully recovered by the group’s Apothecaries.
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