They had chosen a small cave as a temporary base to retreat to at any time. So, once Rui sent the message out to his teammates, he simply returned the cave to find them there.

"Hey." Fae greeted him. "What's the plan now?"

"We wait for Kane to return." Rui replied. "Nothing more until then. But we can talk about what happens after that."

"We kick their asses after that!" Nel declared. "Vanish boy doesn't get to have all the fun!"

"He's not having fun." Rui sighed exasperated. "He's probably having a miserable time."

"He gets to fight the enemies while we sit in this cave!" Nel scowled at him.

"He's not fighting."

"Then why did he go in???" Nel frowned, confused.

"I told him to observe everything inside and tell us what's going on." Rui said. "He will simply look around and tell us everything."

familiar with reconnaissance as a concept, so he had to spell

enemy but doesn't get to fight them?" Nel's eyes

mindless conversation. "Kane's information will help us optimize our plan, but the choices at hand fundamentally

brute force method. We effectively walk upto the hatch and break it open forcefully

covert option. We infiltrate the research facility undetected or disguised and

of surprise but then transition to a head-on approach after the initial ambush. This is the most practical approach in

you say

cannot possibly break open the secret entrance, kill all the Martial Apprentices, and then also kill all the personnel in the research facility before

the attack, can't we complete the mission before the reinforcements travel all the way and arrive here?" Hever

fought normally, we could." Rui replied. "But they won't. Not if they

you mean?"

stall." Rui explained. "Not losing is easier than winning, much easier. If they spend every resource on prolonging our operation as much as possible, we're screwed. It will take an enormous amount of energy and time to complete it and it probably won't happen before the reinforcements

replied calmly. "That does make sense. What about the covert approach then, doesn't that approach completely

goes. Only Kane could employ that strategy, realistically. There's no way we can sneak past the security via stealth or disguise, it was quite tight. If we attempt to, we'll probably get caught and be in an even

indeed does make sense." Fae admitted. "What about the third option? The

best option as far as probability of successful implementation goes." Rui explained. "We use a minimal amount of stealth to ambush with

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