Apology: The part of yesterday's chapter about Little Seven killing the Fire Keeper was incorrect. The logic in the passage had been carried over from an abandoned draft, and I've corrected it... It didn't affect the reading experience much, but everyone needs to correct this prerequisite again. x10 didn't know that Little Seven had killed the Fire Keeper, causing trouble for those following the updates. I'm deeply sorry. Bows, bows!
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The war began without warning. No one could have imagined that, just as the sky was about to turn dark, the Grand Inquisition would launch an all-out assault.
At this time of day, visibility would soon drop to a level wholly unsuitable for large-scale legion warfare. Although the battlefield on the Isle of Hope was not short on ways to provide illumination, wouldn't it be better to use those resources for additional firepower? Why choose a time that would only make things harder for themselves?
Besides, even if this was a night raid, no one had ever heard of one that sounded its horns. With such a commotion, it could only be the signal for a final battle. Thus, this decision—which left the two of them utterly baffled, and was practically tantamount to sheer stupidity—was completely incomprehensible. If history really was supposed to unfold here, then it was no wonder the Grand Inquisition's army had collapsed like a landslide.
They had avoided every advantage only to burden themselves with a negative status. Even if the darkness also interfered with the War Legion, those people had fire!
The flames of war would naturally dispel the darkness, but what about Order?
Everything that Order hated—every kind of filth and crime—preferred to take place in the shadows.
When Cheng Shi and Sun Miao saw the left-wing legion actually