Qianye was also having a headache. The decision was easy to make, but the implementation was difficult. He would just have to play it by ear now.

Regarding this matter, the higher-ups of Dark Flame couldn’t come up with any good suggestions. Some of them were also holding back from making suggestions. The only one who could help Qianye, Song Zining, was tied down far away in the Empire.

Qianye tossed these distracting thoughts to one side and said after some thought, “The current mission is to take down the second Wolf Fang Fortress. Now that we have Count Eiseka, who can contact his tribesmen in the fortress, our objective is to control casualties and damage to the structure.”

Dark Flame possessed the absolute advantage in air superiority, so victory was not a problem. What Qianye wanted was an intact fortress to form a circle of fortresses with Pagoda City, allowing them to defend a wide region spanning several hundred kilometers.

Construction always required more energy, time, and resources compared to destruction. If he could obtain an intact fortress, that was a profit in and of itself. Hence, no one objected to Qianye’s objective.

At dawn the next day, Qianye began the assault...