"Was I still outmaneuvered after all?"
At nine o'clock that night, in the southwestern region of the Cocobia Rainforest, Roxy stood resting in the middle of the Silent Thorn force that had just halted. After hearing the latest battle report from headquarters, there was no surprise on her face.
After consulting the complete map recorded in her mind and combining the locations of their three encounters mentioned in the intelligence with the details of their three defeats,
Roxy quickly deduced John's exact method of ambush.
"After psychological warfare and making use of terrain and weather, he's now exploiting the characteristics of rainforest creatures to create advantages for his side and eliminate the enemy without losses?"
If this method were placed within the study of warfare, it would probably be enough to create an entirely new tactical field called 'Ecological Tactics,' wouldn't it?
The battles he had fought in Faoken would also become model cases for this tactical discipline.
Only twenty-four years old, yet already capable of becoming the founder of a tactical doctrine?
John Maslow, you bastard.
You really were an unbelievably powerful monster!
Looking at the lush rainforest before her, Roxy could not help murmuring in a complicated tone.
Now that she had finally recognized the gap between herself and him, an unprecedented sense of defeat rose in her heart.
But soon, the unwillingness in Roxy's eyes was replaced by resolve.
His tactics certainly filled her with astonishment, even awe.
But that did not mean she could not catch up. Once this war ended and she returned to the kingdom, she would devote herself to studying the ecosystems and species of the world.
With John Maslow's performance in the Fauken Campaign as a reference, she could thoroughly master the tactics he had pioneered and make them her own.
She