The atmosphere inside the Staff Headquarters of the Sark Kingdom Military Department was deathly grim.
Aiwei Ruoang's gaze swept across his colleagues' faces before settling on Benjamin Dirk, the head of the Staff Headquarters. Known as the brains of the headquarters and famous for always appearing confident and in control, the department head now wore a dark expression. He was clearly in a foul mood.
That was understandable. After receiving the earlier reports from the kingdom's southwest, no one could possibly have been in a good mood.
The Spirit Tortoise Legion, the Military Department's finest defensive force, had actually suffered a defeat within the kingdom's own borders. And what had routed them was not some particularly powerful legion, but a single man.
Of course, that man was a powerful Great Mage. Against such an extraordinary being, whose abilities far exceeded ordinary people's understanding in many respects, the Spirit Tortoise Legion had deployed only a two-thousand-man detachment. Strictly speaking, its defeat was not entirely unacceptable.
The problem, however, was that Great Mage's identity.
The Great Mage who had single-handedly defeated the Spirit Tortoise Legion's detachment was none other than Xu Yi, president of the Xinfei Merchant Guild!
Xu Yi was undoubtedly one of the most famous people in the countries of the southwestern Sains Continent. Yet he was one of the few to have earned such fame and prestige as a merchant. Whenever people thought of him, the first thing that came to mind was his position as Xinfei Merchant Guild president, and they always overlooked the fact that he was actually a rather capable mage.
The Sark Kingdom Military Department had not forgotten that fact, but they had never imagined that Xu Yi had already become a powerful Great Mage!
Moreover, judging by the battle report they had received, the