Without wasting another second, Vlad vanished from the battlefield, swiftly moving away from the devastation he had unleashed and from the hundreds of thousands of soldiers that would soon flood the area. His mission was complete—and not just successful, but spectacularly so.
The Xaos strike team had exceeded all expectations. Not only had they killed over fifty thousand soldiers and obliterated an entire fortress, but they had also captured Warden Felix, one of the most strategically valuable assets on the planet.
While the Emperor had provided an incredibly detailed analysis of Exilon's structure and military forces, there were always bound to be gaps in intelligence—oversights, secrets, vulnerabilities that no amount of spying could uncover.
But those secrets?
They were all locked away in the mind of the captured Warden.
