Chapter 2312: Turmoil
After receiving a month of Legion training, Delta Squad was sent directly to MUV World. But from Alto's perspective, as the one overseeing Delta Squad's combat training, while he had to admit that the young man named Hayate possessed an extraordinary spiritual sensitivity, the squad as a whole was not particularly remarkable within the Legion. There were many squads stronger than Delta Squad, and there were also people with greater potential, better comprehension, and stronger instincts. He had no idea why Xiao Ran valued Delta Squad so highly, or why he had assigned Jeffrey Squad to lead them aboard the entire Elysion.
Still, Alto did acknowledge Hayate's unusual talent. It was a strange and highly unstable gift—neither stronger against the strong nor weaker against the weak, able to fight powerful enemies yet also flee from weaker ones. Alto found it quite astonishing. Someone with such wildly inconsistent performance had taken part in several battles and still survived; that was practically a peculiar kind of luck, as well as Hayate's unique talent. Yet after a month of training that had laid down a solid foundation, that bizarre quality no longer seemed quite so pronounced.
Over the following period, Jeffrey Squad led Ernest Squad into contact with the BETA. Jeffrey Squad was merely a collective designation; beneath it was Skull Squadron, a Variable Fighter unit, and Skull Squadron was its only combat team. Ernest Squad, on the other hand, had several Variable Fighter teams in addition to Delta Squad. But when they first faced and fought the BETA, their performance was truly dreadful. It was not that there had been any huge problems, but the results were simply too poor.
During their first encounter with the BETA, Delta Squad lasted less than ten minutes before Skull Squadron, which had