Chapter 174 - Fifth Floor — Otherworld (2)

Shadow Extermination Operation.

The core principles of this operation were twofold.

Encirclement and Annihilation and Blitzkrieg.

Invade before Shadow had time to react, surround, and annihilate.

One might wonder how it could be a blitzkrieg when the city had already announced the attack on the Shadow so publicly.

However, the Abyss was vast and deep.

Just descending from the city to the Fifth Floor took months, and even if one knew shortcuts to shorten the period, avoiding the eyes of Explorers active on each floor wasn't easy.

On the other hand, the city ignored such spatial constraints.

The existence of the Bypass, which reduced physical distance to zero, was practically a cheat key in mobile warfare.

Thus, from the moment we arrived on the Fifth Floor, Shadow inevitably lacked sufficient time to prepare a proper counterattack...