Chapter 1079 - 386: Sorry, Dad, It Looks Like We Can’t Hold On!

The room fell into a brief silence in front of the sand table.

The officers at Cold Bone Fjord wore solemn expressions.

Although Dawn brought thirty thousand elite troops, adding to their thirty-eight thousand, totaling nearly seventy thousand soldiers.

Yet, they were facing the Destiny Ghost Army, which numbered at least two hundred thousand.

Along with those terrifying royal members and Abyssal Level entities.

The pressure was still overwhelmingly suffocating.

Fang Qingyu silently looked at the sand table.

His gaze did not linger on the crimson directly in front of Cold Bone Fjord, but slowly moved upward.

Over the undulating ice mounds and deep ice rift zones.

Past several large Life Ghost Nests marked by Ji Wuya...

Finally...

Fang Qingyu’s finger slowly lifted.

Over the marks representing the forward edge of the ring-line battlefield.

Over the crimson spots representing secondary Life Ghost Nests.

Over the vast areas marked as high-risk and unknown.

Finally, it landed steadily on the core area of the sand table, occupied by a skull mark.

Skeleton King Court.

More than three hundred kilometers in a straight line from the Cold Bone Fjord frontline.

"My target."

Fang Qingyu’s voice was as calm as if stating an established fact.

Clearly echoing in the dead-silent command center.

"Is to push to here."

After a brief silence.

The command center erupted instantly.

"The... Skeleton King Court?!"

"Captain Fang! Isn’t this... too aggressive?!"

"Three hundred kilometers! It’s a path full of Destiny Ghost heavy defenses, a natural treacherous path! This... this is almost impossible to complete!"

"Yes, Captain Fang! Once we advance too fast and too deeply, we’ll become an isolated force left hanging! Our flanks and rear will be completely exposed! If other ring-line battlefields can’t advance in time, we’ll be surrounded by the Destiny Ghosts on all sides! The consequences are unimaginable!"

"To be safe, shouldn’t we first cooperate with other battlefields, make solid progress, gradually take over the outskirts, and wait for the entire ring-line to advance to a certain extent, then..."

An elderly, experienced strategist couldn’t help but stand up.

His face full of worry and opposition.

Trying to explain the importance of a gradual approach.

Fang Qingyu’s gaze turned calmly to him.

The gaze wasn’t sharp, yet it instantly stuck the strategist’s remaining words in his throat.

"We came here at Dawn." Fang Qingyu’s voice remained calm, each word clearly knocking on everyone’s hearts, "for this war, to fight desperately for the survival of the Human Race..."

He paused slightly, his gaze sweeping across every face in the command center, whether shocked, puzzled, or worried.

"...not for some gradual, safe approach."

"This..."

The elderly strategist’s face flushed, wanting to argue further.

But Fang Qingyu ignored him.

He instead stood up and directly walked out of the command center.

He wasn’t good at persuading people.

Therefore, after stating his destination, he left how to make them willingly agree to Wei Banmeng and the others.

The people in the command center could only blankly watch Fang Qingyu leave, not daring to utter a word.

For a moment.

The command center fell into silence again.

Until a clear voice with a faint undetectable smile broke the stalemate.

Wei Banmeng slowly stood up, walked to the sand table.

A face of unmatched elegance carried composure and confidence.

Her gaze swept across the still-doubtful officers of Cold Bone Fjord.

"Actually, there’s no need for everyone to worry. Before we came, evaluations on the Destiny Ghost forces along the way had already been made."

"With our people, combined with yours, it’s entirely possible to advance the majority of the troops to the gate of Skeleton King Court with almost zero casualties."

Hearing these words, the eyes of the Cold Bone Fjord executives lit up again...

Actually, they weren’t afraid. How could officers stationed on the frontlines for decades fear war?!

What they feared was...

That their rashness would cause excessive losses to the troops.

That their rashness would impact the success of other battlefields...

Being so cautious and conservative for many years at the ring-line had become ingrained in them.

Because only in this way could the ring-line battlefield be defended for so many years.

But they seemed to have forgotten...

Now, humans are the main attacking force.

The previously cautious approach was still applicable to the current battlefield.

But sometimes.

Indeed, some changes need to be made.

Seeing everyone looking at her, Wei Banmeng gently tapped her finger on the route connecting the Great Wall and Cold Bone Fjord on the sand table.

At this moment, the crimson marks representing Life Ghost strongholds on that route.

Were picked up one by one by Wei Banmeng.

"First, we just cleared all the Life Ghost strongholds along this path. What does this mean?"

Her voice was clear and powerful.

"This means the support route from the Great Wall’s rear to the Cold Bone Fjord front line has been completely opened. Supplies and reinforcements will be continuously delivered to us at speeds far exceeding other ring-line battlefields. Our logistics supply line is the shortest, fastest, and most secure on the ring-line battlefield, without a doubt."

"This means that even if we encounter losses during the advance, we can be replenished in the shortest time! Our continuous combat capability far exceeds other battlefields!"

Then, her finger moved to the deep blue arrow representing the Dawn Army on the sand table.

"Second, the thirty thousand troops we brought, what are they?"

"All are elite Tier Two. We at Dawn have conducted combat power evaluations for each of our soldiers. I can responsibly tell everyone that these people can easily defeat Destiny Ghosts of the same tier in one-on-one combat. What this means, I believe everyone is very clear."