After receiving their assignments, Cruze and the others set off. Cruze would take Eshe, Shirakawa Shuu, Char, and Yuzes to make contact with the Shadow Blade Legion and Bolsia. The former was a legion they needed to form a comprehensive strategic alliance with, while the latter, though they would only establish friendly cooperation, was still widely acknowledged as the third-ranked powerful legion. Cruze needed to treat both sides seriously.
As for Naza, she would investigate the current intelligence on the fourth-ranked legion alongside Fardes, while also figuring out what the Burning Legion needed to do to rise to fourth place. After all, although the former Overlord Legion had an S-class Pilot like her, she had only been at the lowest tier of S-class. More importantly, the legion's internal condition had been terrible, so they had never been qualified to seek any ranking, nor had they ever considered challenging for one. After joining the Burning Legion, they had paid even less attention to such matters, so they did not know much about them.
But only a few days later, Fardes brought Xiao Ran an exact answer.
"Legion Leader, these are the methods I have confirmed for improving a legion's ranking. In summary, there are only two. The first is to join the Legion Alliance and apply for a legion ranking evaluation. That means showing off our strength and foundations before that organization. After receiving a score, we can obtain a corresponding ranking, but we must also send a team to compete against the team currently holding that rank."
"This organization is now subordinate to the Legion Hall, so the evaluators will be staff sent by the Legion Hall. They will all be Native inhabitants of Prometheus, so we do not need to worry about our intelligence being leaked because of this."