Chapter 441: Earth’s Current Status.
The awakened individual nodded with understanding, recognising the dismissal for what it was.
Military training had taught him when to press for information and when to simply accept orders and move forward. This was clearly one of the latter situations.
He returned to the combat zone, where several other newly awakened military personnel were engaging the steady stream of demons that emerged from the rift. The creatures were imp-like entities, no larger than house cats, all of them represented valuable experience points for the developing supernatural soldiers.
Naturally, none of these awakened individuals had been thrown into combat without proper preparation. Each had undergone extensive power-levelling sessions using controlled environments and carefully selected opponents before being deemed ready to face demonic entities.
Besides, they weren’t operating alone—experienced beta players who had been part of Armageddon since its early days provided support and emergency backup when situations became too dangerous for the trainees to handle independently.
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James was present primarily to ensure that nothing unexpected happened during these training exercises. His role combined tactical oversight with emergency response capabilities, ready to intervene if any of the emerging demons proved to be beyond the capabilities of the training teams. His presence alone provided a psychological safety net that allowed the newly awakened individuals to push their limits without fear of catastrophic failure.
As the awakened soldier returned to his training rotation, James found his thoughts inevitably drifting back to the subject that had been occupying his mind for the past several hours: Arthur Fate and the circumstances surrounding his reported elimination.
Whilst he had personally reviewed the video footage captured during the strike, witnessed the massive explosions that had torn through Installation Seven, and been present during the mission briefing that confirmed the target’s destruction, something about the entire situation continued to nag at him with persistent unease.
The military had deployed comprehensive reconnaissance teams to scout the area in the aftermath of the bombing. Their reports had been thorough and unambiguous—the entire installation had been completely destroyed, reduced to a glass crater that bore no resemblance to its previous structure.