"Dormitory building? Why go there first?" Vortex froze, rubbing his stomach. "I wanted to hit the cafeteria and eat..."
"The cafeteria isn't serving food right now." Balance rolled his eyes. "I've made it very clear: numbers are our disadvantage. With our realms suppressed to the 'Lamp' level, we can't handle a drawn-out battle of attrition. So we have to eliminate the greatest threat right from the start!"
"Oh... so after we finish with the dormitory building, can we go to the cafeteria and eat?"
"..."
"We'll follow Balance's plan and hit the dormitory building first." King Mask slowly spoke. "But be careful. That place should have become their home ground by now. Don't let yourselves get caught off guard and lose."
"Yes!"
Underground base.
"This Lin Qiye is pretty good. He managed to break through even under those circumstances, and nearly blew up Vortex's mask," one instructor remarked.
"If he didn't have some real skills, how could he become an agent?"
"His close-combat ability is very strong, but he still hasn't revealed any of the Seraph's traits, has he? That's Sequence 003's Mortal Divine Domain. If he had used it just now, he probably could have broken out without detonating the explosives, right?"
"The intelligence says that his Divine Ruins seems to be incomplete."
"But even with just his terrifying deductive ability and close-combat level, he's more than qualified to rank among the most promising recruits in the entire training camp."
"I'm quite curious about what it'll look like when he clashes with King Mask..."
Yuan Gang watched the screen, his knuckles tapping rhythmically against the tabletop as though he were pondering something.
"Sir, what are you looking at?"
Yuan Gang raised a hand and pointed at a youth on the screen, sitting in a corner with a sword