The colonel leading the Imperial Military team hesitated slightly at Fourth Boss's suggestion.
It wasn't that he thought the suggestion was bad. The key was that he had to consider the honor of soldiers.
Sure enough, the moment he announced the proposal, the soldiers below responded.
"We know it's a good suggestion, but wouldn't that turn us into a logistics unit?"
Those who had come with Digital Phantom were all elite Imperial Military personnel, with pride of their own.
However, once everything had been laid out in the open, it became easier to handle.
The colonel replied irritably, "Then should I refuse them and eventually... return with the corpses of quite a few brothers?"
"There's nothing wrong with trying to prove yourselves, but is it appropriate to drag down your fellow soldiers?"
Once those words were spoken, the soldiers had nothing more to say.
Some pointed out, "There will still have to be people aboard the Attack Ships. It isn't like there'll be no danger at all; there'll just be fewer participants."
A few others said that Digital Phantom was willing to lend them fifty Item-Storing Talismans, which showed genuine consideration for them. People ought to know gratitude.
When this fleet had arrived, since it was carrying out operations behind enemy lines, it had also brought over a dozen Item-Storing Talismans filled with supplies.
However, these talismans were extremely precious. There was simply no way they could be used in combat in bulk the way Digital Phantom used them.
In the end, though, the Imperial Military colonel tactfully told Fourth Boss that they welcomed artificial intelligence installations on warships below the Company-level Warship class.
This meant that the military still hoped its Battalion-Class Ships could retain the qualifications to fight independently.
It had little to do with secrecy. It was