The sudden signal changed Huai Shi's expression.
Deep Space Legion?
At a time like this?
It gave him a whiff of something ominous.
As the direct military forces of a behemoth like the Astronomical Society, the Four Great Legions themselves represented the crystallization of the Present Realm's military might. Each had different priorities and duties.
Of them, the Iron Legion was the largest and bore the most responsibilities—conventional field warfare, frontal assaults, defensive operations, raids, garrison duty, and more. It handled over seventy-five percent of all regular defense operations and was the best known.
Compared to its loyal, capable, and tireless elder brother, the Original Darkness Legion, directly under The Void Floor, was the most unpopular little brother in the family. It handled special operations, internal purges, and all sorts of dirty work that could not see the light. Other than occasionally protecting classified personnel, almost nobody liked them.
The Dawn Legion was the smallest of the Four Great Legions, with the fewest personnel. It rarely showed itself in public, and its organization was entirely fluid. Yet every year, its personnel replacements and compensation payments were even more alarming than those of the Original Darkness Legion, which had the highest casualty rate.
Among the Four Great Legions, they alone were not primarily composed of people, but of various dangerous objects and potentially disastrous relics collected by the Astronomical Society throughout the realm. While storing, maintaining, and utilizing them, they were also responsible for resolving all relic containment breaches occurring in the Present Realm and the borderlands.
Basically, if there was anything they could not handle, the Continuance Institute came next.
And finally, the Deep Space Legion... they were the favored sons of the Four Great Legions, the Present Realm's main force in the War of All Realms, the "first-class citizens"