"Ah, you're right."
Long Ao Tian had not expected Chen Ping to immediately guess why he had come. He fell silent for a moment, then continued.
"Thanks to you, the Sun Moon Empire's armies at both the Star Luo Border and the Heavenly Soul border were driven back. But the Sun Moon Empire has not given up on its plans to continue invading."
"Over the past month, although the Sun Moon Empire withdrew its reach from the Star Luo Border, its movements along the Heavenly Soul border have become far more frequent than before."
"During the previous border war, an ambush wiped out two Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineer Legions, and the Soul Guidance Soul Revealing Lamp exposed what the Holy Spirit Cult had done. It is true that this left the Sun Moon Empire's border legions deeply unsettled."
"However..."
At this point, Long Ao Tian seemed reluctant to continue.
"However, what?"
Chen Ping suddenly had a bad feeling.
Logically speaking, although the annihilation of two Soul Engineer Legions meant the Sun Moon Empire had lost only twenty percent of its top-tier Soul Engineer Legions, leaving eighty percent still capable of fighting, that was not how the calculation worked.
Put it into terms from Chen Ping's Blue Star homeland: it was like two or three army groups from a single military region being wiped out in one battle. That entire military region would basically have no troops left capable of fighting.
If news like that got back home, it would be enough for the country to collapse in a cyberpunk-style downfall ten thousand times over. Not to mention that the Sun Moon Empire's soldiers had personally watched their comrades' souls get devoured by Evil Soul Masters.
Under such circumstances, could the Sun Moon Empire's Border Army restore its morale and