There was nowhere near enough time to evacuate all the valuable items in the base.
After the Royal Guard's elite troops and the Mithril Knights escorted Rose away, the remaining personnel destroyed all classified material in the base, then split into small groups and evacuated in batches.
As the Twin Stars' most important Hunter breeding base, this facility regularly dispatched mature Hunter Corps to battlefields elsewhere. Everyone slipped away in twos and threes among those units.
Meanwhile, all Hunters in the base on the verge of maturity were forcibly matured and hatched, and the number of Hunter Corps began to surge.
About an hour after Rose and the others left, huge numbers of Hunter Corps began pouring out of the base.
If the earlier small-scale evacuation had merely caught the Twin Stars' attention, then once every feed from the recon insects was filled with Hunters racing past, even an idiot would know what was happening...
"Damn it! Who the hell leaked the information?!" the Army commander roared, slamming the table in a fury.
The people before him exchanged uneasy looks. They had only just received word from headquarters to carry out a classified mission immediately. Everyone privy to it had even been placed under communications restrictions and ordered to monitor one another.
Yet despite those precautions, the enemy had begun a mass evacuation just before the operation's scheduled start, as though they had known about it all along. It was practically a direct declaration... we've seen right through you!
"Sir, judging by the reports from the recon insects, they began a small-scale evacuation an hour ago. We simply didn't pay enough attention to it at the time.
"In other words, the information may well have leaked an hour ago!" someone ventured timidly.
An hour ago, none of them had