Most scholars in the Academic World couldn't understand the Destroyers' almost fanatical, downright insane approach to combat.
It had only been a month.
A fierce debate had erupted within the Academic World over how to fight the Destroyers.
Most scholars insisted that they had to strike first and launch an attack on the Destroyers. Yet whenever it came down to it, Reilo vetoed the proposal, and the decision could never be passed.
In the scholars' ingrained view of the Dark Continent's zero-sum wars, exposure meant annihilation, and discovery meant destruction.
Law Cataclysm weapons seemed capable of deciding the outcome of wars between advanced civilizations. With a strategy based on environmental catastrophe, they could destroy the foundations of the enemy's habitat and inflict irreversible damage. The side that struck first would surely win.
But Reilo had a deeper understanding of Law Cataclysm weapons.
1. The Destroyers who had come to fight this time were all elite powerhouses. Unless they took a direct hit from the core of a Law Cataclysm weapon, its aftereffects would be insignificant to them. The power of a cataclysm weapon lay in its ability to change the ecology of a vast area and devastate an entire civilization's ecological food chain, not in its ability to target individuals.
2. The Destroyer Expeditionary Force was currently stationed at the edge of the Academic World. If they recklessly unleashed Law Cataclysm weapons against the Destroyers, wouldn't the Academic World be destroying itself?
3. The Academic World hadn't even found the Destroyer Civilization's habitat to use as leverage. According to the Central Civilization's information, these warriors who lived for battle didn't seem to have any such thing as a civilizational habitat. Before joining Taigu's ranks, they had been a roving band of mercenaries who constantly changed employers. Now they might be