If there was one thing Li Wei hated, it was meetings.
Unfortunately, as commander of the Thistle Knight Order and a count of the Empire, there were some meetings he simply had to attend.
Especially military meetings concerning the Kingdom of Kront. The other Miss Annie, whom Li Wei had brought back from the biological world, also attended as a special guest.
Although Francis had surrendered, its resistance had not been meaningless. To crush Francis in one fell swoop, the Kingdom of Kront had deployed all its elite forces, and the Empire's spies had naturally documented its new troop types.
At these top-secret military meetings, Li Wei got to see photographs and some intelligence on these military units.
First came the army.
The Kingdom of Kront's army still relied on Burrowing Beasts as its core, but Beastmen had replaced its vanguard. These Beastmen were extraordinarily resilient, with tough hides, thick flesh, and tremendous speed. According to reports from the front, soldiers of Francis had emptied entire magazines into Beastmen without killing them.
Killing these Beastmen required heavy weapons such as landmines or artillery. But they were immensely strong and fast, and once they charged into a camp as the vanguard, a rout was almost inevitable.
The Kingdom of Kront called these Beastmen its Beastman Armored Troopers, and their numbers were still relatively small. Li Wei also shared the intelligence he had obtained from Annie: producing an ordinary Beastman generally took about a week. Given this world's lack of advanced biotechnology, much of the mature biotechnology equipment and instrumentation available in the biological world could not be manufactured here, so the process would only take longer.
That meant Beastmen probably could not be deployed on a large scale in this world anytime soon.
Next came the giants.
Li Wei had encountered