Chapter 2150: Loss
(The Golden Boxes had been mentioned in an earlier chapter. All of them had been opened, but nothing particularly useful or valuable had come out of them, so they had all been placed in the Legion Warehouse for legion members to exchange with points.)
Xiao Ran spent a day at King Frie's Palace in the OG World with Shanamia. Sheryl and Mwu were there as well. Neither of them asked about his earlier decision to leave Cruze and Renard behind; perhaps they truly did not care, or perhaps they simply knew how to play dumb.
The next morning, Xiao Ran appeared in the Legion Territory in Prometheus. The enormous conference room was packed with members of the Burning Legion and the Overlord Legion. Many of them, especially those from the Overlord Legion, looked utterly exhausted. It was easy to guess that they had likely spent the entire previous night staying up to write reports on this mission.
At the start of the meeting, a roll call was conducted as usual. In the end, however, six names would never answer again. Six members from three different squads—four from the Burning Legion and two from the Overlord Legion—had vanished from this group forever. The legion had clearly provided every member with the best possible treatment, yet six members had still been lost in a single mission.
Six people in one mission was already an enormous loss for the Burning Legion. The legion had suffered member deaths before, but this time was clearly more serious than the last. A heavy atmosphere settled over the meeting from the very beginning and never lifted.
Only after Xiao Ran and the others had separately reviewed the mission reports submitted by the squads that had suffered losses did he raise his head and silently