How valuable was a prophet in strategic terms?
To two empires with comparable militaries, a prophet was more intimidating than an army of any size under any circumstances, even if that prophet had no combat ability whatsoever.
With Lin Xue around, it meant the enemy could hardly launch any large-scale surprise attacks against the Empire, since she would passively detect them. It meant any military operation we carried out had over a ninety-nine percent chance of success, because Lin Xue could learn in advance exactly how every step needed to work for the operation to succeed. It meant we could avoid nearly every threat along our path of development. Sometimes, a prophet on the battlefield could magnify an insignificant butterfly effect into a catastrophic chain reaction for the enemy. Lin Xue had done exactly that before. Using just one of Older Sister's Disaster Beacons, she had triggered a chain reaction that exposed an entire third of an enemy army group to the range of our main guns for ten full minutes. Achieving the same result with conventional troops would have cost an astronomical number of casualties.
The Fallen Apostle naturally knew that the New Empire possessed such a strategic asset. Lin Xue had ruined who knew how many of their military operations, and since Miss always liked following me onto the battlefield, the threat she posed in war zones was no less considerable. The greatest difference between a prophet commanding a battle and an officer commanding one was that the latter relied on experience and knowledge to grasp the overall situation, yet every effort the latter made would ultimately be easily exploited by the former. If I were the Fallen Apostle, I would have hated that prophet to the point of madness long ago.
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