In many people's eyes, the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps was a succulent slab of meat that made their mouths water. Everyone wanted a share of the spoils from this joint operation. With unspoken understanding, they had all dispatched small reconnaissance teams, hoping to obtain firsthand intelligence.
After all, the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps had risen by stepping over the Kawashita Alliance's corpse, and it had always enjoyed ample funding. Any organization in its position would have made the same choice-expansion! Even if it had not expanded its territory, an increase in its strength was a certainty, nailed firmly in place. Its fighting power had already been impressive before. How far had it progressed now? That was the intelligence every faction wanted most. But the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps had always kept a low profile. Since its battle with the Kawashita Alliance, it had undertaken no further large-scale military operations. Coupled with the exceptionally strict security at the Snow Silk Worm Base, this meant they had been unable to infiltrate it at all, let alone obtain intelligence.
To outsiders, the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps was a mystery-a mystery whose depths no one could fathom!
Had the Blood Card Adept Corps not been leading this operation, the others would never have been foolish enough to fight a force whose depths they could not gauge. But the Blood Card Adept Corps' involvement filled every participating faction with confidence. No matter how much the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps had grown, it could never contend with a Federation-level corps like the Blood Card Adept Corps. Meanwhile, the silence of the other Federation-level corps, the Snowflake Card Adept Corps, made its intention not to intervene perfectly clear. This emboldened the participating factions even further.
But how