"If I hadn't seen that battle with my own eyes, I never would've realized just how glaring our combat flaws really are…" A grizzled general of the Radiant Conclave sighed heavily, his voice laden with emotion. He made no effort to conceal just how rattled he was by what he'd just witnessed.
He'd merely voiced what everyone else had been too proud to say out loud. Among these high-ranking officers, each with a reputation so solid it needed no defense, their cultivation levels had already reached those of Corebearers or Radiant Lords.
In other words, they had no trouble imagining themselves in the boots of those who'd just been handed a crushing defeat. Just picturing how they would've fared in their place filled them with a deep sense of dread and helplessness, a suffocating weight pressing down on their chests.
