Ye Lan had never met Ling Zhan before.
But why had she treated Ling Zhan with such cold disdain from the moment he appeared?
Naturally, it stemmed from an order she had received from Dragon Kingdom Warzone Headquarters yesterday:
Tomorrow, a powerhouse would be airlifted to the frontline fortress of Takamagahara, where he would personally take up the position of captain of Squad Nine.
Logically speaking,
Ye Lan should have been pleased to receive such an order.
Squad Nine consisted of special reserve members from their junior year and reserve troops for the senior-year Special Corps.
Five hundred people in total.
Compared with the hundreds of millions of troops committed to the war, that number seemed tiny—small enough to be ignored, didn't it?
But one had to know that these five hundred were the cream of the crop!
They were also the future hope of the Dragon Kingdom Warzone's Special Corps!
Moreover, Takamagahara was not the only forbidden zone with reserve troops stationed there for training. Elite reservists were stationed in the other forbidden zones as well.
Ordinary junior- and senior-year reservists generally would not be assigned to train in other forbidden zones. They trained on the frontline battlefield of the Dragon Kingdom's Ten Thousand Demons Cavern.
Those assigned to the frontlines of other forbidden-zone battlefields were all elites the Dragon Kingdom focused on cultivating. After all, given the future trend, the Four Great Forbidden Zones would sooner or later bare their savage claws at all life across the globe.
When that time came...
A world war that swept across the entire globe would erupt.
Under such circumstances, every elite and pillar of the Dragon Kingdom had to become familiar with the habits, combat skills, combat tendencies, and other traits of the monsters in the various forbidden zones.
Squad Nine's