A little over ten hours later, after completing their training and finally getting a full eight hours of rest, the many pilots gathered once more in the Burning Legion's conference room. Cruze and Graham served as the hosts of the meeting, beginning to brief everyone on the upcoming battle plan.
Upon hearing that they would truly be facing ten thousand Gamillas warships, not a single pilot present showed surprise or hesitation. Instead, they remained calm and impassive. After facing enemies of such numbers in the virtual cockpits—enemies that had been even harder to deal with and more unreasonable—no one would have been overly shocked by such news.
Even if they truly had to take on ten thousand Gamillas warships, they had no worries. All they felt was an intense desire to fight and the confidence that they could do it. After all, under Xiao Ran's somewhat cheating methods, they had already developed the ability to handle such odds. Not to mention that the real Gamillas forces might encounter all sorts of unpredictable problems, such as chaos and low morale.
Domel was also released from the Burning Legion at this time. However, Xiao Ran kept Misera behind, since she knew that the Victory Fleet might be heading to the Balan System next, preventing their operation from being exposed through her.
Xiao Ran had guessed that Desla had been assassinated, but he had not expected Desla to truly have been killed with the Impact Legion's assistance. So, in Xiao Ran's view, since he had let Domel go, there was no need to release someone even more ruthless, someone willing to resort to any means for one person. But if Xiao Ran had known that Desla was already dead, he definitely would have released Misera immediately. He might even have supported her return