Ascension I

"What are you looking at?"

On Wulan Star.

Along the gray-white aerial highways, rows of military vehicles carried Fissioners who had only just entered the planetary defense system toward the distant city.

There were no miscellaneous outsiders anywhere on Wulan Star; everyone was military personnel.

Or rather, the entire planet had become one enormous military camp.

Logistics and the like were jointly supplied by the other planets in the lake region. Moreover, all the Free War Stars had formed a vast air-pressure network, completely sealing off every possibility of spatial jumps in all directions other than the front.

"Nothing." Wei He lowered his head and withdrew his gaze from distant space.

He had just completed his mission and returned to the Free War Stars. He was seated in a military vehicle, with Katri riding beside him.

This guy's leg had healed again, and he had now been assigned to settle down on the Free War Stars together with Wei He.

They would serve as a reserve force, awaiting future battlefield support assignments.

"What are our arrangements afterward?" Wei He asked casually.

"Our unit's practically been wiped out. What arrangements could there be? We'll be merged into somewhere else. You're fine—you can join the patrol legion. I'm the one with a fate full of twists and turns." Katri sighed.

"There's no helping it." Another Fissioner beside them sighed. "There are simply too many Psionics gathered here. Divided according to psychic art types, we'll probably be assigned to the corresponding long-range psionic units."

"Long-range psionic units?" Katri froze. "I didn't expect they'd already come up with a plan like that."

"What?" Wei He did not understand what surprised him. "Isn't it just assigning people to the corresponding armies based on their psychic arts? What's the issue?"

"Long-range psionic units have another nickname: