"There's way too many of them for us to fight head-on," I was saying the next morning while jabbing at a holographic screen projected from my glasses to emphasize my point. "Even if we include the 5 scouts we took out yesterday, and the casualties they suffered during our retreat, there are still at least 20 of them. And we haven't accounted for the possibility that they would swell their numbers with reinforcements."
"That Ji Xuan really has his tentacles sunk in everywhere across the Federation. I can't believe so many schools were sheltering his lackeys." Lilith huffed angrily. Then she frowned. "There are rumors that he has ties to the Assassin Guild…"
