"Ah!" The Mech Soldiers sighed, preparing to accept their fate.
To hold out for ten minutes, they could only rely on luck.
With bad luck, they would be torn apart by spells the moment they went in. With good luck, they might make it out alive.
At least it was not a guaranteed-death mission, which gave them a little comfort.
But Xinger Kasia sensed that something was wrong.
The commander-in-chief had actually changed!
Others might not have known the difference, but as an old hand who had joined the Expeditionary Force a year and a half ago, Xinger Kasia quickly realized—the change in command meant that something major must have happened in the rear!
Solar Emperor Marnina had always paid close attention to the battle situation at the front and often personally took command for fine-tuned control. If no major incident had happened in the rear, why would he hand command over to someone else at such a critical moment?
What exactly happened? Xinger Kasia wondered, glancing back toward headquarters.
He also realized something else. Right! If something major happened in the rear, then I probably don't need to risk my life charging out of the defense network!
With something serious happening in the rear, those higher-ups surely would not care about these minor matters at the front. In that case, perhaps he did not need to take the risk of leaving the defense network!
Thinking of this, Xinger Kasia felt it was worth trying.
But if he was not going to die, then his fellow cultivators still had to die. He should still send his subordinates out of the defense network to their deaths, lest they truly draw the higher-ups' attention.
Without changing his expression, he said to the nearby Mech Soldiers, "That's about enough. Everyone, go in. I'll