If you cannot resolve the conflict, then escalate it.

[Following the late Headmaster's will, you began selling his full set of equipment and accessories.]

[Due to the extreme rarity of the late Headmaster's gear and artifacts, the announcement of the sale immediately drew numerous inquiries.]

[When certain factions attempted to throw exorbitant sums of money at you, you chose to ignore them outright.]

[After all, the late Headmaster's equipment and accessories were immensely precious, making them ideal for trading for equally valuable gear and skill cards.]

[In the end, you successfully concluded a transaction with the Titan Corporation.]

[You carefully browsed through the Titan Corporation's inventory of Grade-A skill cards, but after looking around, most of them failed to satisfy you.]

[At the very least, after reviewing them, you found none that truly suited you.]

[However, the prices offered by other conglomerates and battle corps were intolerably low. Weighing your options, you ultimately selected two Grade-A skill cards suitable for Wang Meng and Deng Qi.]

[You have learned the Grade-A passive skill: Heart Piercer.]

[Description: Every attack you make has a 25% probability of triggering a critical strike dealing double damage, which can stack with critical damage and weak-point attacks.]

[You have learned the Grade-A skill: Life Reversion.]

[Description: Consumes 20% of your own health points and battle aura to instantly restore 50% of your health points.]

[These two skill cards are poorly suited for ordinary warriors, but excel for tanky frontline brawlers and assassins.]

[When unable to enhance your own power, you have no choice but to strengthen the reliable people around you.]

[At the logistical exchange department of the Battle Corps Administration, there exists a rare and precious item known as a Skill Adsorption Card.]

[In other words, using this item allows one to extract skills directly from a professional.]

[Therefore, these two skills were precisely prepared by you for Deng Qi and Wang Meng in the next spacetime.]

[As an assassin capable of explosive damage, if Deng Qi possessed the Heart Piercer skill in the next spacetime, he would gain the potential to assassinate targets of higher ranks.]

[A single-hit execution, followed by a swift retreat across a thousand miles!]

[This is precisely what a powerful assassin ought to embody.]

[If Wang Meng possessed the Life Reversion skill, he would undoubtedly evolve into a super-tank.]

[These two skill cards would directly add two top-tier combat powerhouses to the Red Heart Battle Corps in the next spacetime.]

[You are well aware that your current situation makes efficient development virtually impossible.]

[Thus, hoarding your strength and preserving the accumulations developed over this spacetime cycle for the next is the wisest course of action.]

[Only by doing so will the Red Heart Battle Corps expand at an unstoppable, world-shaking pace.]

[During the negotiations, you also demanded a batch of controllable puppet armor to further arm your battle corps.]

[In August of the 133rd Year of the Transcendental Calendar, bearing casualty reports stained with blood and the late Headmaster's combat recordings from his final moments, you arrived at the main headquarters of the Administration via the teleportation array.]

[Due to the shifting tides of recent times, the Administration—as the most powerful organization in the Federation—had naturally undergone several bloody purges.]

[Meanwhile, Department Chief Nie, who had guided you to join the Administration and repeatedly supported you, had failed in the political struggles of a few months ago, ultimately being relegated to a suicide squad on the frontline.]

[The newly appointed leadership of the Administration remained completely cold to your visit.]

[Naturally, regarding the various combat reports and intelligence you submitted, they responded with the same bureaucratic, foot-dragging platitudes.]

[At present, the Federation is on the verge of destruction, with various Grade-A battle corps fighting desperately on the frontlines.]

[How could the affairs of a mere Grade-C battle corps ever command their attention?]

[Faced with the Administration's apathy, before you even had the chance to resort to shameless tactics to ignite public opinion, you learned through internal battle corps channels that the Federation's Fifty-Seventh Battle Corps had called for widespread protests and demonstrations.]

[The commander of the Fifty-Seventh Battle Corps went so far as to declare bluntly that if the Administration continued to play the ostrich and failed to meet the demands of heroes bleeding on the frontlines, they would storm directly into the Administration headquarters and smash everything to pieces!]

[With the Fifty-Seventh Battle Corps taking the lead, other battle corps naturally followed suit one after another.]

[Furthermore, an anonymous figure stepped forward to offer a strategy, arguing that mere vandalism could not solve the problem and that other methods should be employed to fulfill their aspirations.]

[As soon as these words were uttered, members of various battle corps prepared to unleash verbal abuse.]

[At a time like this, how could anyone still spout such idiotic, saintly nonsense?]

[However, before they could voice their anger, the same person stated that instead of mere vandalism, they should break in and slaughter everyone inside.]

[What did acts of vandalism even matter?]

[Only murder—specifically large-scale vicious assaults, even charging into the Administration to bare their blades against the relevant leadership—could make the Administration truly comprehend the accumulated rage of the battle corps.]

[Since this matter was stalled and the contradictions could not be resolved, they would only intensify the conflicts!]

[Only by doing so could they force the upper echelons to pay attention.]

[Finally, once public opinion completely blew up, they would release the solid evidence of their oppression by the Administration.]

[Once these words were spoken, the internal communication channels of the battle corps fell into a dead silence.]

[Slaughter was something they had all engaged in.]

[Yet slaughtering the leadership of the Administration was something they had never even dared to imagine, let alone execute.]

[Such an act was simply too insane.]

[So the person who had just spoken was no bleeding-heart saint, but a ruthless mastermind with genuine vision!]

[However, as the strategists within the battle corps perceived the opportunity hidden within, the entire communication channel soon began clamoring with claims that they had fought on the frontlines for too long and were suffering from severe combat stress and depression.]

[They were on the verge of losing control!]

[If the Administration could not even satisfy such basic demands, then living in this world held no further meaning for them.]

[If that was the case, they would drag others down with them to the grave before dying!]

[Word of the commotion here quickly reached the ears of the Administration.]

[In an instant, the leadership of the Administration began to take the matter extremely seriously.]

[Just as the Administration was deliberating on how to quell the unrest, you seized the opportunity to appear at the gates of the Administration headquarters carrying banners, commencing your performance of playing the victim.]

[You poured out grievances about how difficult life was for the Red Heart Battle Corps, holding down Ning City with a mere Grade-C designation while weathering medium and large-scale onslaughts, resulting in devastating casualties among your personnel.]

[Your demands were not exorbitant; you merely sought the disbursement of pensions for the fallen members of your battle corps.]

[Yet even this minor demand was ignored by the Administration, pushing you to the brink of survival!]

[Even the commander of a Grade-C battle corps was regarded as an absolute heavyweight in the eyes of ordinary professionals.]

[Upon arriving in any city, they were practically received with the protocol reserved for a mayor.]

[And such prominent figures typically valued their dignity.]

[Your actions completely ground the pride of both the Red Heart Battle Corps and the Administration into the dust.]

[Especially at this critical juncture, when massive contradictions had accumulated across various battle corps and were on the verge of exploding, the Administration moved swiftly to process your demands.]

[After all, they had no desire to hand weapons to the Fifty-Seventh Battle Corps; should a mutiny erupt, while the rebellious battle corps might eventually be suppressed and hauled before a military tribunal for liquidation...]

[Once they were dead, what meaning would any of that hold?]

[Driven by this panic, the Administration operated with terrifying efficiency.]

[Nevertheless, the Administration harbored deep resentment toward your coercion, leading them to covertly undermine you by permitting you to select only a few transcendental items from the logistical department.]

[Furthermore, these items had been thoroughly filtered by them—appearing precious and rare on the surface, yet utterly useless for the developmental growth of the battle corps' combat power.]

[In short, they were intentionally targeting you.]

[However, the moment you laid eyes on the Talent Star-Up Stone listed among the exchange options, a bright light flashed in your eyes.]

[To any other battle corps commander during this tense period, a Talent Star-Up Stone was the epitome of uselessness.]

[After all, anyone capable of becoming a commander possessed a talent tier no lower than Gold.]

[Wanting to elevate a talent of the Gold tier further required far more than just a few Talent Star-Up Stones.]

[Moreover, at such a critical juncture, why waste hard-earned merit points on a Talent Star-Up Stone?]

[Could the improvement of a single individual's talent ever compare to the comprehensive upgrade of the entire battle corps' equipment or battle arrays?]

[Not in the slightest!]

[Therefore, even the most selfish and unhinged commanders would never trade for Talent Star-Up Stones at a time like this!]

[How utterly foolish would someone have to be to commit such a donkey-brained act?]

[Only you, at this burning, hair-trigger moment, made such an incongruous and absurd choice.]