The Destroyers' one-month preparation period after declaring war passed in the blink of an eye.
During that month, the Destroyers had not failed to notice the Academic World spying on them in various ways.
Aside from the first few scholars who had arrived openly as envoys from the Academic World, all the other spying scholars had been driven off by high-ranking Destroyers of equal strength.
This was also the first round of probing between the two sides.
The spies the Academic World could send were undoubtedly academic elites, empowered by high-ranking magical artifacts after the Academic World's Third Golden Age and boasting formidable combat strength.
But when these elite scholars faced Destroyers of equal rank, they lost far more often than they won. The ratio of victories to defeats was roughly two to eight.
As for attempts to capture living specimens, not a single one had succeeded.
The results had truly unsettled the Academic World's leaders. They had even been afraid to make this information public.
These were elite scholars empowered by the Third Golden Age. If this had been the Academic World of the Second Golden Age, wouldn't the casualty ratio have exceeded one to nine?
"No wonder the Central Civilization calls them a naturally warlike people..."
Only now did the Academic World's leaders finally begin to understand what the Central Civilization meant by a warlike people.
This nomadic civilization, which had continually evolved through war, had endured a history of brutal conflict that scholars who had never seen beyond their own wells could scarcely imagine. Since its birth, it had fought hundreds of wars between races and civilizations, large and small. These wars were both its glorious history and its history of evolution, engraving the combat potential forged in battle deep into its blood and soul.
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