The battle ahead was raging fiercely, and they were urgently beginning to decipher the barrier in the rear...
There were more than eighty Mind Officers responsible for support—nearly the entire force brought along this time. They had originally been assigned to support Billy in commanding the mecha legions, but now, in order to decipher the barrier as quickly as possible, almost all of them had been requisitioned.
They had left Billy with a single Mind Commander in the rear to hold back Andrew's assault!
It sounded somewhat insane, but there was truly no other choice. Even after requisitioning every Mind Officer, they still felt severely understaffed.
The runes were too complicated!
The structure of the entire alchemical array was completely different from the mainstream structures of the present day. It did not even bear the slightest resemblance to the Ancient Alchemy arrays Plato usually studied. Nearly every structure had to be analyzed from scratch, and each model had to be handed to the Mind Officers nearby for analysis and recording as soon as it was unlocked.
Moreover, these bizarre structural types were practically endless. Every time the advanced Mind Officers had spent less than ten seconds analyzing a model, the Space Mages at the forefront would demand the data, driving the entire group of Mind Officers nearly to the point of having their heads explode.
Under such high-frequency work, everyone was no less tense than Billy, who was commanding the army alone on the front lines!
At the very front, Plato studied the immense number of rune structures with the seriousness of someone who had found a priceless treasure. To be honest, if the situation had not been so urgent, encountering such a wondrous alchemical array would have excited him for several days.
Yet he had to find a way