What was the best way to test a weapon's performance?
Of course, actual combat.
Paper statistics and battlefield performance were entirely different concepts. No matter how outstanding it performed on the range, it was better to take it to the battlefield and give it a try.
The Burning Corps, stationed on the front lines, soon received its first major combat mission after Operation Warrior began...
Late at night.
Northern district of Xizhou City.
A group of raiders carrying rifles cautiously walked down the pitch-black streets, their flashlights carefully sweeping over both sides of the road.
Every so often, they even shone them overhead.
Days of continuous attacks had thrown the entire tribe into a state of panic.
The guerrillas formed by local survivors had already given them enough headaches. Now, another group of unwelcome guests had arrived in Xizhou City.
Not only were these people well-equipped, heavily armed, and highly trained, but their physical abilities were extraordinary as well. Many even displayed traits clearly belonging to Awakened.
These paratroopers moved through the abandoned urban districts like ghosts, appearing and vanishing unpredictably as they sought out isolated patrols to attack or launched raids on fixed checkpoints, sentry posts, and watchtowers.
Not only that, their tactics were exceedingly cunning. The moment a stalemate arose, they immediately withdrew, never giving the raiders a chance to catch them.
What especially troubled the raiders was that the attacks did not occur within the same district. They could even happen simultaneously in the southern and northern parts of the city.
This gave the raiders, who lacked radio equipment, a serious headache.
Since they did not have enough communication devices to equip every ten-man squad, they could only use signal flares to report the approximate location of an attack.
And once multiple facilities came under attack at