After returning to Death Space, Yang Xiu still felt shaken.
Meeting someone from home should have been a happy occasion, but with his identity changed, it had left him in a cold sweat.
Especially after Analysis revealed that the other party was "Grandpa Tie," the commander of the Veteran Corps.
"That damned oppressive presence."
Looking up at the figures running stalls on either side of the road ahead, Yang Xiu felt the sort of emotion that only came from surviving a brush with death.
This unexpected incident also made him start considering a question.
Although their eight-person Elysium squad had greater mobility on missions, its combat strength fell far short of Team Mode.
Should he expand the team's fighting force?
One thing was clear: the Lord of Bliss would gradually consolidate the Elysium Players. This was an inevitable trend; it simply had not been implemented yet.
The reason was simple.
What the Lord of Bliss wanted was a war legion, not squads that excelled at small-scale combat.
This was evident from the Elysium Purple Tide and the Elysium Insect Tide.
The Lord of Bliss very much wanted to establish a powerful war legion and was constantly conducting various tests, attempting to find a viable path.
The concept of the Elysium Players had also been developed around building a legion.
Some hints of this could also be found in the elite Death Space's design.
Unlike Death Space at the trial stage, elite-level Death Space had no internal conflicts.
If teams encountered each other on missions, explicit rules prohibited fighting between them; instead, a cooperation mechanism had been established.
As long as another Player Squad cooperated in completing a mission, both sides could receive extra points.
The design alone revealed the Lord of Bliss's intentions.
Thus, regardless of whether he wanted to