The commander continued .

" The Empire wants the younger generation to experience what our ancestors experienced through the war challenge.

That is why even if it is said that any one under the supreme warrior realm can participate, when you are inside the challenge area every participant's cultivation would be further reduced into warrior realm, participants have to fight like ordinary warriors.

But even though a True warriors strength is reduced to that of an ordinary warrior, their experience, their bodily, and their better understanding of elements and control over them all remains.

Every time the Alliance government sends around 60 true warriors and 40 warriors at the peak, we can't send that many True warriors. At best we will only send 30 true warriors, 40 peak warriors and rest mid or low level warriors.

The number of true warriors in the rebel forces have gone down, after being on the run and hunted down by the Alliance government, more than that we don't have enough resources with us to cultivate more True warriors.

If this was all we could still put up a fight and complete at least the first stage of the War challenge. But ever since we have become the rebels the number of allies we have has come down to 3, and they are also under great pressure and can't lend much help.

The powerhouse who is playing everything from behind the Alliance government is too strong.

Whenever we send men for the war challenge, it won't be just the Alliance government force that would be attacking us but also other forces that would be attacking us ...."

After taking a long breath the commander looked towards Alexander , who nodded back at the commander.

Then Alexander spoke up " Dror I have been hiding something from you, my real name is not Alexander but Xander , If it weren't for you showing so much interest in the war challenge, just like me years ago, I wouldn't have revealed this to you even now…"

Dror felt like he had heard the name somewhere, then he remembered the name of the great prodigy of the rebels who was also nicknamed The young war god. But from the pictures that Dror had seen that person's face was nothing similar to Alexander and the Young war god was a muscular young man with a fierce and noble aura.

Ever since he had searched the details regarding the war challenge, this person's name was the most prominent one regarding the planet Ayangdad.

The articles like 'fall of the hero' , 'tragedy of the young war god' were very striking so Dror had paid great attention and read through them.

But he never had guessed that the great Hero, the Young war god was his friend and deputy Major.

It took some time for Dror to calm his mind from all kinds of thoughts.

After a pause Alexander continued " I am sorry that I hid this from you, I hope that this doesn't affect our friendship … I have had my own reasons but you must feel deceived "

Dror replied with a smile " Nah, I don't feel deceived or anything, in fact I feel proud that I can call someone like you my brother… and you even took upon the position of deputy major to help me.."

Both Alexander and the commander were relieved after hearing this.

Then it was the commander who spoke up

" Xander has been living in retreat and seclusion for a long time, you should understand the importance of this matter and why he is willing to reveal his identity.

Many don't know this, people think that Xander was completely defeated and received severe injuries.

Truth is that, not only did they gang up on him to defeat him, they destroyed both his lower and middle dantain, and left him alive to serve as an example.

You should know that destroying one's lower dantain will destroy one's cultivation, but destroying one's middle dantian is much more crueler.

A person's middle dantain is what decides one's proper bodily function, health and immunity, if it is destroyed the person would become much weaker than an ordinary person, all kinds of diseases would affect him much severely , his immunity and tolerance would be close to zero.

He will even fail to become a martial artist or body cultivator.

His life expectancy will also be greatly reduced… If it was not for the pills that he is continuously taking he would have died a long time ago, but even with this alchemist have declared that at most he will live for the next 7 or 8 years.."

Dror felt sad for his friend and he could see that even though Alexander sat there with a slight smile, there was deep sorrow hidden away inside those eyes.

Dror didn't feel any pity but respect for his friends, but there was still worry in his eyes.

Seeing Dror's look Alexander gave a smile towards him " I have gotten used to this by now, you don't need to worry. What is more important is that you understand what happened during the war challenge.

We were very confident in completing at least the second stage, but we were only able to barely complete the first stage and the people that returned alive from the challenge were only 6 including me.

The weird thing was that our final battle didn't even get recorded in the artifacts that were supposed to be there to record the whole war challenge.

It seemed like someone had tampered with the whole process and the enemies we faced were not just the alliance government and its 2 or 3 allies, but more than 10 armies with more than 800 true realm warriors.

Whoever was supporting the Alliance government is nothing but simple…"

There was a pause and no one spoke for some time.

Dror was the first to speak after taking a deep breath

"Are you saying that the Empire is behind all this ? "

The commander and Alexander didn't respond immediately, then with a sigh Alexander was the one to speak

" We don't know. If the empire wished to go against Ayangdad, they didn't have to go through all these troubles of the Alliance government. Conquering the planet for the Empire is nothing more than snapping their fingers.

Then again we are not sure, the more probable answer would be someone with great power in the empire or someone whose influence reaches the empire… but truth is we have no idea.

And we have no idea of which kingdom or countries the attackers came from since they hid away their identity tag and anything that might reveal their identity. Only the Alliance government and its two allies revealed their identity.."

Dror's respect towards Xander had greatly risen by now, it was no easy feat to hold ground when such a large army tens or more powerful than you attacked you and still being able to complete the first stage.

The first stage of the war challenge was a battle royal with survival as the main goal.

Passing through the first stage was considered easier unless something happened like what happened with the rebel participant.

Xander and the commander further explained the details of the past challenges of which the last challenge that the rebels participated in was the most tragic, not even one of the participants returned alive.

The more Dror pondered more he felt like his idea of joining the war challenge could be a mistake. At the same time he also felt like if he was to somehow succeed in this, it would be the best opportunity for him.

But he was not fool enough to think that everything would go according to his plan, so he put the idea of war challenge behind his head and started discussing other matters with the commander and Xander, by this time the dinner was ready and they discussed further while enjoying Mrs. Luke cooking.

The commander and Xander were also happy that Dror understood the seriousness of the situation.

After saying goodbye Dror departed from the commander's residence.

On his way back unknowingly he started thinking about all that was discussed just a while ago and the war challenge itself , He had this feeling that he will be missing out on a great opportunity if he missed this, at the same time he was troubled by the fact his Grand Revolution would be postponed again and who know how many times more might something like this come up, there was risk to every endeavour much less for something like Revolution.

Dror was not someone who would easily give up on his plans, but the more he thought the more he felt like the odds were against his plan.

And unknown to him he was already in front of a shabby bar, he nonchalantly entered the bar and ordered a bottle of rum.

But this time his magic medicine of inspiration was not working so well, he kept on thinking and browsing through his sky watch the details regarding the war challenge, while gulping down the glass of rum.

He knew that problems that he faced were multiple , he even wished that he could bring in his friends to brainstorm on this matter.

But after talking with them earlier he knew that they would feel more disappointed and angry at him, than in any mood to help him. That is unless he has some working solution.

Dror already had a solution for many problems that they might face in the war challenge. It was to strengthen the participant, but the biggest problem still would be the number of opponents that he would face.

Even if he had 100 true warriors participating, if the enemies gang upon with 800 true warriors there was nothing to think about.

As he was thinking his sky watch vibrated and projected the sign of an incoming call.