After learning that the Ground Support Unit had helped him capture seven cities in succession, John knew that he already had a seventy percent chance of winning the Cocobia Rainforest Campaign. If everything proceeded smoothly from there, the odds of victory would rise to one hundred percent.
"However, all of this rests on one prerequisite: the 2nd Division must obey my orders and come to support us. Only then can the first stage of my plan be carried out. Otherwise, it will all be empty talk."
Inside Blue Lake City's City Lord's Manor, John had successfully extinguished the flames before being injured with Wendy's help after she suddenly remembered that she knew water magic. Having changed into a fresh pair of pants, he now stared thoughtfully at the regional map of Faoken before him.
At the same time, information about Edgar Thorne, the current commander of the 2nd Division and a Major General, surfaced in his mind.
As the commander of the 2nd Division of the 2nd Army, Edgar Thorne, who wielded "Mimicry," was neither as powerful in combat as Major General Tony's Shock spell technique, nor did the troops under his command possess the overwhelming firepower of the 1st Division.
Especially now, after being pincered by the enemy and losing their strongest Heavy Artillery Regiment in the Tarzan Wetlands, this already underpowered unit had become even more stretched thin.
But in John's plan, he had never intended to rely on this unit's pincer attack to secure victory.
He intended for it to become one part of his tactics.
Simply put, he wanted it to serve as bait.
Bait that could deceive the enemy commander three days later and carry out the rest of his plan.
To achieve that goal, there was only one thing he needed to do right