Whether to stay or leave
Han Jingjing suggested informing Eagle Country and bringing them up to date on the situation. Eagle Country's circumstances were clearly so complicated, yet its leaders kept bickering instead of taking strong, decisive action. They were letting the opportunity slip away.
If the situation kept deteriorating, the vast Eagle Country wouldn't be defeated by the Underground Race overnight. But it wasn't impossible for the Underground Race to break through and even build up confidence.
If that happened, the advantages the Surface World had gained from the special medicine and the early stages of the war could slowly be eaten away, perhaps even erased by the Underground Race.
What did the Underground Race need most right now? Without a doubt, confidence—and victories on the Surface World battlefield.
Before this, the Underground Race had struggled to mobilize in the Underground World and was trapped in a stalemate. Wasn't the main reason that it had been battered on the Surface World battlefield and could barely advance?
If it managed to break through on the Surface World battlefield and win repeatedly, those reports would make their way back to the Underground World and give morale a tremendous boost.
With those victories behind them, the Underground Race could answer to all sides of the Underground World. Morale and public opinion would gradually turn in their favor. By then, their ability to mobilize for war would inevitably improve greatly.
Was the Underground World short on people? Clearly not. It had plenty of people to fight. The problem was mobilization—the fear and despair ordinary Underground Race warriors felt about the war on the Surface World.
And you couldn't blame them.
Based on the intelligence coming back to the Underground World, nearly every ordinary warrior who went to the front became cannon fodder. They