Olivia·Armstrong joined Imperial Navy for just over a year. However, in a short period of time, she showed her outstanding talent as Arcane Battle Aura Warrior and was promoted to Third Tier in just three months.
She broke countless records - both combat and non-combat. She showed unprecedented leadership skills, so the Navy's top brass decided to focus on training her.
Although before the official declaration of war, Empire appeared to be in a peaceful period, this was just an appearance.
As part of the training, Interstellar Marine Corps will be sent to planets infested by monsters.
These monsters are not only powerful, but also only know how to kill and destroy. Imperial Navy will hunt these monsters as a practical exercise.
Olivia and her team were sent to one of the planets.
During that time, she performed well and rose through the ranks.
After serving in the Navy for a year, she was promoted to Fourth Tier. From then on, her career began to take off at an accelerated pace.
She discovered that when Battle Aura Warrior reaches Fourth Tier, it will undergo a qualitative change she calls Elemental Awakening.
As the name suggests, anyone who uses Battle Aura can awaken certain elemental abilities that do not require magic power.
So far, everyone can only awaken one element, and Olivia awakened the ice element.
This discovery brought her great fame and honor. Many people with Battle Aura talents but no magical talents can now use their Battle Aura to use elemental abilities such as fire, water, Wind Blade, etc.
After learning about this, Ian also tested the process of Elemental Awakening and awakened the lightning element.
Although he wanted the spatial attribute more, he was quite satisfied with the result.
More importantly, he used Olivia's discovery to accumulate huge prestige and honor for her in the military. In this way, it would be logical for her to take over the position of commander-in-chief in the future.
In addition, just as Olivia was inventing new methods, many Potions Masters of Snape and Empire finally developed Dragon Talent Potion that can enhance people's magical talents.
Ian brewed a bottle specially for her using the heart of Water Dragon King, and announced the arrival of this new medicine to the public in the name of rewarding her outstanding contribution and meritorious service to the Empire.
Subsequently, Ian announced to the world that anyone can redeem this precious potion as long as they have enough Arcane Merit.
In addition, Empire will hold a lottery every year to give a free bottle of medicine to an ordinary citizen, giving them a chance to change their destiny purely by luck.
Return to the battlefield.
After dealing with the pursuers, Cold Gold Squad went straight to the supervisor's office.
In the process, they encountered waves of Steel-Skin Folk soldiers who tried to stop them.
However, these people are vulnerable to the elite team trained by Olivia himself. In addition, the shadow has controlled the weapon system, so this human wave tactic has no effect on them.
The supervisor guessed the men's intentions and tried to escape.
Unfortunately, the Shadow had taken control of the entire building. So, the team managed to capture the supervisor alive.
Olivia wasted no time and directly read this guy's memory; she wanted to know the reason why they were exposed.
It turns out that Steel-Skin Folk has a very deep connection with the earth and the ores deep in the earth's crust.
Among them, there are a very small number of individuals called priests who are able to connect to and communicate with Planetary Will.
These priests usually possess extremely high wisdom and are the core figures who promote the scientific and technological development of Steel-Skin Folk civilization.
Because of this, these priests are Steel-Skin Folk's top secret.
Their status is high not only because of their intelligence, but also because of their detection abilities.
As long as they are stationed somewhere, they can use the Planetary Will to detect any intruders.
This is why Cold Gold Squad's whereabouts were exposed as soon as he entered the building.
These priests should be protected by Planetary Will and be able to shield Divination, Olivia thought.
However, Empire's intelligence department should be able to find out their existence.
Therefore, either the intelligence agency failed in its duty, or Planetary Will's shielding ability goes far beyond simply blocking Divination.
In addition, these priests seem to have the basic ability to seal space, preventing her from performing Apparition internally. Or, perhaps, they borrowed the power of Planetary Will to do this.
Olivia guessed that Steel-Skin Folk must be using this ability to research space technology.
If they are given enough time, they are likely to succeed and develop faster-than-light travel technology.
After thinking about all this, Olivia quickly analyzed the situation and formulated a new mission plan:
The first is to blow up this building to prevent Steel-Skin Folk from sending the fleet into space.
Second, act quickly to cut off all communications between the planet and the outside world, preventing the enemy from knowing their mission and sending reinforcements.
Third, capture a priest and bring back Empire for research.
After making a plan, Olivia asked Shadow to find the location of the priest.
Unfortunately, there was no trace of the priest at all. So, she had no choice but to give up and start taking the next step.
After leaving the spacecraft launch pad, she detonated the planted bomb.
Immediately afterwards, the team teleported to the next launch pad.
Over the next few hours, Cold Gold Squad not only destroyed all launch pads on the planet, but also all communications towers.
Unfortunately, they were unable to capture a single priest. These people seemed to be very good at hiding and escaping.
After the mission of this planet was completed, their actions did not end.
Among the seven planets controlled by Steel-Skin Folk, they must destroy the launch pads of six of them, leaving only the main star Goldinite (Goldinite) intact.
Throughout the entire operation, once the team entered an important stronghold of Steel-Skin Folk, they would always be discovered by the priest.
Luck What's interesting is that the team was well prepared and able to deal with it easily.
They didn't give the enemy any time to breathe.
In just two days, they stayed awake and traveled to various planets occupied by Steel-Skin Folk, completely paralyzing their fleet.
Only one planet survived. In addition, the team finally succeeded in capturing a priest and bringing him back.
Operations command room.
Ian is reading the preliminary report on the abilities of priest Steel-Skin Folk. There is still very little information found so far, so he does not pay too much attention.
At least it's not the time yet. These priests may be able to help his Akashic Records Project. But the jury is still out.
So, he refocused his attention on the war.
"It's time for step two."