Exterminate Them All!

"Something has changed in the Southern Ridge. Barton Henriel has not returned, but all our covert agents have been eliminated."

The Blazing Flame Lands Southern Ridge Special Operations Headquarters lay within a gap on the northern side of the Bison Mountains. Its main section occupied natural caverns deep within the mountain belly, expanded and remodeled by earth-aspected Ascenders. It contained an information room, a small alchemy laboratory, a signal base station, an armory, and many other functional facilities. It could be called a small forward war base.

From here, Naimo, commander of the Blazing Flame Lands Special Operations Brigade's Southern Ridge division, sent an urgent message to Blazing Flame Lands spies and infiltrators throughout the Southern Ridge: "A powerful psychic must have arrived in the Southern Ridge. He or she can see directly through infiltrators' disguises. Nauman City has already mobilized in full. Until our intelligence network is rebuilt, we do not know their movements or their purpose."

"Stay alert, everyone. You may be ambushed at any moment!"

Naimo Narik possessed the Second Energy Level true form of the Frost-Erosion Guardian and was a Will Projection psychic. He oversaw all Blazing Flame Lands intelligence work in the Southern Ridge. Other than acting alongside the Steelwing Dragon flock to oppose Third Energy Level experts among the Southern Ridge Patrol Knights and the Marquis's knightly order, he could basically mobilize every Blazing Flame Lands operative in the region.

It was an honor, and it was also a responsibility. Whenever something happened, this psychic—meticulous in all things, even somewhat compulsive—would certainly notify everyone he ought to notify, ensuring they could respond correctly to any potential danger in advance.

—But not even a prophet could save everyone, much less a mere psychic's warning.

Truly clever people could smell danger without anyone's help, while foolish