10 p.m., Gloom Corridor Caverns, within a vast underground space.
"..."
John stood outside the temporary command tent, listening to the sound of flowing water beside his ears as he looked at the complex, sprawling karst cave around him, made especially bizarre and fantastical by the lamplight and reflections off the underground river. He could not help but fall into thought.
At present, fewer than four hundred guards had been stationed in this complex cave system, roughly four hundred meters underground, which served as the command post for the Chokehold Peak operation.
The remaining soldiers were proceeding toward Chokehold Peak, the site of this coming clash, under his command. Meanwhile, the 1st Battalion soldiers who had completed their reconnaissance mission were also using their mobility, according to his original plan, to lure the enemy toward Chokehold Peak.
Yet what surprised John was that ever since he had issued the lure order, every member of the 1st Battalion who had gone to the ambush points he had predicted, where they should have encountered the enemy, exchanged brief fire, withdrawn, and reported back on the lure operation—
Had yet to send him any report of engagement.
It was as though they had never encountered the enemy at all.
Considering Roxy's personality, John had some idea what this meant.
"So, Roxy has already figured out that I intend to engage the Fifth Legion at Chokehold Peak?"
"She knows I want to use the terrain to suppress the Allied Forces."
"Knowing all that, she was not only unafraid, but chose to challenge me instead?"
What arrogance.
Still, it completely suited her style.
After all, she was the supreme commander universally acknowledged by the game!
Thinking of this, John inwardly sighed, but his mind began racing.
Based on what he knew of the Fifth Legion,