The Difference Between People

Benjamin remembered the mission from before he had fallen unconscious and immediately took out the Magic Network Terminal from his spatial equipment.

He pulled up the detailed coordinates and energy readings he had previously recorded regarding the suspected enemy headquarters and nearby troop movements, then submitted them as intelligence.

The terminal quickly responded:

[Intelligence received. Preliminary verification indicates high value. Reward: Low-grade Military Merit, 700,000 points.]

It was no small sum, but to Benjamin now, it was merely icing on the cake.

What concerned him more was the usefulness of the intelligence.

Viola leaned over to glance at the terminal screen and shrugged. "Pity you were unconscious for several days, so you submitted it a little late."

"Quite a few people had already submitted similar intelligence about the vague coordinates of their headquarters a few days ago. After cross-verification, the general area has basically been locked down. Yours is more precise, but it's no longer as valuable as it would have been at the beginning."

"Next, they'll conduct a dragnet search centered on their headquarters, across a spherical region with a radius of ten million kilometers, to see whether they can dig out those 'missing' high-ranking wizards."

Benjamin nodded. He was not surprised that other wizards had come up with this search plan.

Every wizard was shrewd as a fox. If he could think of scouting the enemy's range, others naturally could as well.

"This 'midfield area' between us and the enemy headquarters has basically been plowed over several times by reconnaissance forces from both sides, with nothing found," Viola continued. "It looks like those people really did deploy their 'trump cards' deeper in the rear—most likely even farther behind their headquarters."

Benjamin frowned. "Wouldn't that make things even more troublesome? We're already at a disadvantage in troop