She turned toward the porthole and looked at the still-burning border, saying through gritted teeth, "Chen Ping. What a King Wu'an you are. You really do have some poisonous schemes!"
The aftershocks of the explosion gradually subsided, but the smoke and dust above the border lingered, like an enormous burial shroud covering the remains of two elite Soul Engineer Corps.
The Heaven Dou Empire's defenders began emerging from their shelters. They silently gazed at the scorched earth, many still unable to believe everything before their eyes.
Vina removed her goggles and rubbed her aching eyes. "Notify the Star Luo Empire and Dou Ling. We've broken the Sun Moon Empire's first offensive. But the war has only just begun.
"Reinforce the defenses and treat the wounded." Exhaustion seeped into Vina's voice. "Ju Zi won't let this rest. Next time, she'll return with the remaining six Soul Engineer Corps and even more terrifying weapons."
"Also, the equipment Grandmaster Xuan Ziwen rushed to prepare can be raised now. Hopefully, Chen Ping really was that accurate in his calculations."
"Grandmaster Xuan Ziwen, it's time."
Not far from the border, Xuan Ziwen was holding a complete set of Optical Soul-Guiding Detection Mirrors, gazing at the distant battlefield shrouded in smoke and the black specks flying through the sky.
"Well done. This time, right before the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Engineers, we'll show them just how despicably their own empire will treat them. We'll clear their heads and make them understand that, in Xu Tianran's eyes, whether they're from the Three Great Empires or the Sun Moon Empire, soldiers don't count as people at all!"
"Although Chen Ping said this was only his conjecture, I believe that brat's conjecture based on human nature won't be wrong."
"What are those?"
At the Sun Moon Empire's position, Ju