After twenty sandglasses of Shallow Meditation in the main base corridor, Saine opened his slightly bloodshot eyes.
After advancing to Rank One, magicians indeed did not need to sleep every day.
But a Second-Level Magician like Saine would still feel exhausted and mentally bloated after remaining in a high-intensity combat state without sleep for more than half a month.
Unfortunately, the fierce battle outside did not leave Saine any time to rest.
Thinking back to more than half a year ago, when the fighting had just begun.
After Saine and the others went through an intense battle, Combat Command could still spare them a day to recuperate.
However, beginning three months ago, almost no combat magicians had been given a chance to rest.
Like Saine, everyone could only seize spare moments to restore some Mental Strength through Shallow Meditation.
The heavy casualties among the Combat Legions and participating magicians left Combat Command with no way to redeploy combat units for rotational rest.
At this moment, the only one still closely following Saine was Construct Master Yuli.
Nataya had been seriously injured two months ago. At Saine's request, she had been sent to the Treatment Center in the deepest part of the main base.
Lunna had separated from Saine a month ago. That Fat Girl, astonishing both in bulk and strength, was now assisting with the defense on the southern side of the base.
Lunna's injuries were not light either, but she was thick-skinned and tough—or rather, her layer of fat was sturdy enough.
Though countless scars had been added to her body, Lunna had stubbornly maintained relatively high fighting spirit.
Her stamina and sustained combat ability also surpassed Nataya's by quite a bit.
Even Saine, a Second-Level Elementalist with plenty of Magic Potions, was slightly inferior to Lunna in that