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"Is it still not time?"

General Hans was somewhat angry.

"Then just when do we have to wait? A million casualties in a day, twenty Army Groups need to be rotated out from the front line, my lord Governor, my lord Commander of the War Zone, do you even understand what that signifies?"

"I've been in the military for forty years, and I've never fought such a brutal battle! Even in the Golden Pass Star Sector, when we were fighting desperately against those Green Skins, the scale was larger, but we never lost so many warriors on such a narrow front in a single night and day!"

"Continuing on like this, how long do you think our forces can hold out?"

"Wait until the Army Corps collapses, wait until Mingyan City is also swallowed up, all your myriad and ingenious plans will be meaningless!"

General Hans unloaded on Gu Hang with a fierce tirade.

And Gu Hang, in response, offered only a modicum of consolation, "I understand the heavy sacrifices made by the corps. They are my subjects, my army; am I not saddened, not pained by their sacrifices?"

"But these are all for a greater victory."

"Do I not even have the right to know about this so-called greater victory?"

"Whether you know or not, has no significance," Gu Hang said, instead making further demands, "I need your troops to do one more thing."

"What?"

"The next stage of our war mission, is to attack Fino City." Find adventures on My Virtual Library Empire

General Hans almost laughed in exasperation, "Do you even realize what you are saying?"

"Of course, I do."

"It can't be done!" General Hans decisively refused, "That is an impossible objective."

"General Hans, I must remind you," Gu Hang's tone grew stern, "I am not here to discuss combat plans with you, but to issue the most explicit military order."

Gu Hang's tone became even more severe, forbidding, "You and your troops must complete the mission of attacking Fino City within the next eight days, without delay! Do you understand?"

Hans took a deep breath.

He was holding in his breath, feeling an urge that wouldn't be satisfied until it was released.

But in the end, he held it in anyway.

He was a soldier; obedience to orders was his sworn duty.

And Gu Hang was now his clear superior. He had no choice but to carry out Gu Hang's orders without question.

No matter how much he disagreed, how little he understood.

Clenching his teeth, he replied, "Yes, Commander."

...

After the communication ended, Gu Hang stood on the edge of a sheer cliff, gazing down at the battlefield below.

The distance was vast, stretching hundreds of kilometers wide and deep, with no end in sight.

Yet, despite this, what caught his eye was an immensely majestic scene.

All the brutality and cruelty of war, the deaths and severed limbs, the sacrifices and wails, were invisible and inaudible here. All that could be seen was sheer splendor and magnificence.

Explosions were the most beautiful fireworks, and the battle line visible in the distance meandered and twisted, changing moment by moment.

But none of this stirred any feelings of valiance in Gu Hang.

He knew that what Hans had said was true. Countless human warriors were making tremendous sacrifices on the battlefield below.

But if one wasn't ready, one simply wasn't ready.

At such times, Gu Hang had to be resolute.

The unprepared were not his concern.

For the past four months, the elite troops slated for deployment had been ready and waiting.

At the same time, he had long calculated the specific methods of spiritual energy transmission with his own Mage Corps. Gu Hang himself had also immersed himself periodically in his Storm God Kingdom, working out how to use the Divine Realm to smuggle through subspace and reach the heart of Fino City.

But he had not forgotten their ultimate goal for this risky venture: to destroy the Anti-Orbit Cannon and Void Shield at the center of Fino City.

To achieve this goal, it was necessary to reach the target location as soon as possible, which required precise teleportation; at the same time, he hoped that the enemy's defense forces around the target would be as few as possible, which required external pressure so that those demons would draw away the target area's defensive forces to engage the enemy.

Of course, having General Hans' troops launch a fierce attack on Fino City to draw the enemy's attention was only a secondary goal. More importantly, when Fino City came under direct attack, especially as more human warriors entered the activated city, the link between Fino City, a node overlapping subspace and reality, and subspace would correspondingly weaken.

And this would directly affect the extent to which some powerful demons, from the depths of the Abyssal Hell, could exert influence on the real world.

What Gu Hang was most concerned about was the Great Demon, the Ge Wajia Demon Lord.

Clearly, the plague disaster on Korolya Planet was a major move by Ge Wajia. It had been waiting a long time, already gorged and yet unsatisfied. Its greedy eyes were already set on the hundreds of billions of people in the entire world, unwilling to give up.

In fact, it was indeed very close to success. Once it devoured Mingyan City, the entire planet would be powerless to resist it.

If it sensed any risk of its schemes failing, there was no doubt that it would do everything in its power to prevent it.

At first, in Rage Owl Star, Ge Wajia couldn't directly traverse the veil of reality, but in Fino City, it was different. The subspace corruption was too severe here; the veil of reality was already fragile. If it were willing to pay a sufficient price, it could come through.