Main Theme of Destruction (3)

I was dumbfounded.

How could every carefully laid-out strategy collapse like this?

The military maxim that no battle plan survives contact with the enemy truly hit home.

No, perhaps even that maxim had been sidestepped.

After all, my battle plan had died before I had even encountered the enemy.

The original plan was as follows.

Dig a hole in the ceiling of the 206th floor, hide inside it, and deploy a utility spell that concealed my presence. Then halt most of my Circles, hiding even my demonic energy.

While lying in wait like that, the moment the intruders became distracted by my three undead.

Use two consecutive teleports to close the distance to the most dangerous 9th-Circle mage in an instant, then assassinate the mage with the instant-death skill [Death Sentence - Slash (斬)].

That was the core of the plan I had made with the gallery, and why I had spent the past twenty-odd floors practicing the Moon Wheel Scythe Method while swinging my scythe...