Dangerous Situation

Zong Ge added, "Unless there is a powerhouse who stubbornly insists on going their own way."

"Unfortunately, the Ice Sculpture Kingdom's strongest powerhouses are three Sanctuary-level individuals. The Snow Elf king from several centuries ago was Legendary-level. Although he was strong enough, his political acumen was lacking, and even the Ice Sculpture Kingdom citizens privately evaluated him as weak-natured. He did not accomplish this matter."

Zi Ji continued, "Through this incident, I have once again discovered a huge weakness of ours."

"We are far too lacking in intelligence personnel."

"Alchemical Puppets and Undead Life can indeed gain quite an advantage in reconnaissance, especially after being reinforced with the Deception Disguise Art and Anti-Reconnaissance Prophecy Spell."

"But true intelligence requires people to go out and scout, to analyze, and to deploy."

"We need someone who can take charge of intelligence work. Up until now, we have mainly relied on purchased intelligence."

"This aspect desperately needs improvement!"

Zong Ge immediately expressed his deep agreement.

Up until now, they still knew very little about the duelists, knowing only that they were a powerful and mysterious faction.

This time, the Purple Vine Shop had also suffered a disastrous loss due to insufficient intelligence. If they could have detected that something was amiss in advance, even if it were just the slightest clue, as long as it had aroused the vigilance of Zi Ji and Zong Ge, things would never have become this perilous!

Zong Ge sighed, "Among us survivors, no one possesses the talent to take charge of intelligence work."

"If we hire from the outside, the most crucial thing is loyalty. We cannot guarantee that."

"Indeed," Zi Ji lamented. *"If we hire outsiders to handle our intelligence probing and collection work, they could completely use the contents we gather to conversely deduce many