In a one-on-one fight, you could survive simply by killing your enemy.
But that was not how things worked on a battlefield.
Kill the enemy in front of you, and you would still face enemies behind you, along with countless potential enemies all around.
Even if you were immensely powerful and had embarked on the Path of the Believer, giving you absolute level suppression over other Sequence Ability Users, escaping alive from a mob of them would still be difficult.
The battlefield was a meat grinder, shredding everything in sight without caring whether you were a chicken's backside or a beef tenderloin.
Dust mingled with the stench of blood, assaulting the nerves of everyone on the battlefield.
Under such intense stimulation, every move anyone made could have an enormous impact.
The slightest disturbance could become the spark that sent an entire side collapsing.
The Security Teams of Wang, Xie, Yu, and Huan had been unable to mount any meaningful resistance against the Wei Character Legion. Even when someone tried to rally nearby comrades to fight together, the experienced Sequence Brigade commanders spotted them in advance and broke them apart with a few powerful combination skills.
But these Security Team members had not yet completely broken.
With their lives on the line, they still gritted their teeth and held on. It was not out of any great loyalty to their bosses, but because their homes and livelihoods were all tied to Western Mining. What awaited them if they deserted went without saying.
Yet the pressure and anxiety weighing on them, along with their sense that the battle was going badly, never went away.
Teammates kept falling beside them. Blood splashed across their armor and clogged their breathing holes, filling every breath with its thick metallic stench.
All manner of unfamiliar attack