Finally, with his fingers tented beneath his chin, Grand Marshal Li Qingshan let out a long, gravel-deep exhale that sounded suspiciously like a wheeze of restrained hysteria.
"Where is the investigation report I ordered? I want a name." he said, voice low and cold enough to freeze plasma.
His entourage of hybrid aces flinched.
Which was saying something.
These weren't ordinary officers. They were legends in their own right—soldiers whose names were whispered with awe across every battlefront and training hall. Each of them stood at the pinnacle of the modern military's twin doctrines: mecha warfare and awakened combat. They were the future of war incarnate.
Colonel Yin Lu, the youngest person to ever pilot a Class-9 heavy mech while simultaneously casting Tier-S spell formations with a single hand, had personally ended a Beast tide in the Southern Wastes using a one-woman fusion barrage.
