Against the Tide Station, Flame Hall.
The towering dome reached into the clouds, and hundreds of stone pillars supported the space like giant trees.
Every Divine Pillar here was engraved with the Against the Tide Legion's history of war, from its founding members resisting invasions by natural disasters when the Against the Tide God first established it, to the unbroken border defenses of the present.
The figures of the various races in the reliefs were lifelike.
At the far end of Flame Hall, a massive ring-shaped array of light hovered in midair, slowly rotating.
Countless streams of light flowed into it from every direction, like an inverted galaxy, a sea of stars pouring down.
Every stream carried reports from the 138th Legion's logistics stations.
Elder You sat cross-legged beneath the array, an overbearing pressure radiating from his body.
His eyes were closed, and part of his consciousness had left his body, forming tendrils that reached into the array's sea of light.
As the 138th Legion's logistics chief, his core task was allocating resources.
All logistics-related intelligence converged on him, and he categorized and filtered it before forwarding it to the Supreme Hall: Godguard.
This was a central authority of Against the Tide that Elder You had never seen with his own eyes.
It had no station or roster, and even his superior, Legion Commander Futu, had never met its members.
But Godguard's standing was beyond question. Many of its members were ancestors of some of the Against the Tide Legion's races.
They could also be regarded as extensions of the Against the Tide God's will, conveying divine decrees to Against the Tide's various organizations.
Every order issued by "Godguard" represented a place upon which the Against the Tide God had cast his gaze.
Elder You's consciousness moved through the sea