Indeed, ordinary knights with an average combat rating of only Third Ring were no match for Saint Gongsun Qing, even fighting on home turf in their heraldry mechs. What was more, the boost from the Eternal Array inside the fortress had also become nonfunctional for "unknown reasons."
Of the eight Starrealm Knights in the two units, three had been killed and two seriously wounded. The rest quickly retreated, taking their wounded comrades with them.
By the standards of ordinary soldiers, retreating only after suffering that many casualties was undeniably heroic. But for Starrealm Knights, it seemed a little underwhelming.
Even Gongsun Qing, an art student, and Ina, a correspondence-course college graduate, could tell something was amiss. But with over a thousand prisoners still crouching with their hands over their heads in the command center, they had no choice but to let it go for the time being.
Next, the breath attacks of the four star dragons sent an armored grenadier regiment that had dared to approach fleeing in disarray. They were the last of the Empire's reinforcements.
Now the three girls and the four dragons were staring at one another in the fortress command center. They simply didn't have enough people. Guarding over a thousand prisoners was already the limit of what they could manage.
Besides, they couldn't expect an art student and a vocational-school graduate to take over command of the fortress by furiously hammering away at a terminal keyboard like well-trained top students.
They were waiting for reinforcements to arrive.
"We need at least a company of technical troops," Ina said. She might have been a correspondence-course student, but she'd served as a professional senior officer for several years and knew what she needed.
"We'll have them," Feifei reassured her. "Your job is to stand by and stay