"...." Theo smiled silently, saying nothing at all.
How could he possibly explain to Hedric what was really happening? How could he describe the absurd brilliance behind the operation of the Shadow Swords? They waited in complete silence, hidden in the emptiness between stars, until the enemy fleets passed close to a planet. Then, using the Coordinate Detection Device, they would identify the mother ship's precise transition point. Immediately afterward, they activated the new generation of the Instant Transmission Array, allowing them to infiltrate directly into that mother ship itself—swiftly, quietly, like shadows folding into deeper darkness.
Once inside, they gathered intelligence, sabotaged systems without leaving traces, and then, when the timing was right, they simply vanished—jumping out to another planet along the route.
Even the information about Marshal Borentor's absence had come from whispers overheard by spies among ordinary soldiers aboard those very fleets.
