As they walked, Leng Yaozhu continued filling Xia Yi in on the Blood God Legion. "The garrison at the Abyssal Passage rotates once a month. The Blood God Legion's combat forces are divided into ten regiments, each with around fifteen hundred soldiers. That's the main combat division. Including logistics personnel and researchers, there are roughly ten thousand more. The total headcount has always stayed between twenty-five and thirty thousand. Normally speaking, if new recruits join the main combat forces, they start as reservists."
"From experience accumulated over several thousand years, if the Blood God Legion encounters Abyssal Creatures now, casualties are far lower than they were in the past. Generally speaking, after a month of special training, new recruits still go through a year as reservists. Only recruits who pass the reserve period can truly be deployed to the front line. If their results are good, that time may be shortened a little. But you're with the Logistics Department, so you only have one month of special training. Starting today, for the next month, unless something major happens, I'll bring you to the Abyssal Passage to learn about Abyssal Creatures."
The two of them passed through three more nodes guarded by soldiers before they could truly be considered to have entered the Abyssal Passage.
The light ahead was no longer the same as the lamplight. What they saw were faint halos flickering in and out of sight.
"That's the light from the Abyssal Passage side. The C-rank passage we're in shouldn't have any overly powerful Abyssal Creatures. You can handle them perfectly well. Facing the real thing is different from facing something virtual in a test. Remember this: when fighting Abyssal Creatures, it's a matter of life and death. You absolutely cannot show mercy, and you must strike with overwhelming