Speaking of the Fallen Apostles, they seemed to have quieted down again for the time being.
Yes, "seemed." Even though they had shown no movement at all over the past month or two, and even the monitoring outposts in the void had rarely spotted traces of the Fallen Apostle Fleet, I could only say "seemed." No one believed the Fallen Apostles had truly gone dormant. Although they had achieved quite a few tactical victories in their recent operations, they had suffered enormous strategic losses. And from what I knew of them, such losses would not make the enemy fall silent. Instead, they would make them do everything possible to turn the situation around.
But the Fallen Apostles were also exceedingly cunning. They rarely showed themselves voluntarily without absolute confidence, so no one knew what was happening within their territory. From the surface, all we could tell was that the enemy was temporarily holed up on its own turf.
The Third Intelligence Core had formed more than a dozen special operations teams. Their identities were something we had never imagined before: Fallen Apostles, or rather, "former" Fallen Apostles.
Everyone probably still remembered what that little brat Xiao Xue did when she came over: she turned an entire Harlan army group! That army group suffered heavy losses while following Xiao Xue through the enemy blockade, and the surviving warships no longer met their original complement. After we consolidated and reorganized the unit, we incorporated it into Viska's forces. Viska, the Abyss general, finally had an official legion of her own again. But Sandora and I both felt that throwing such a special unit onto the battlefield to trade fire with the enemy was not a good idea. So they were more often used for special assignments. Carter and Carlo seconded several hundred