Ling Xue silently stood atop a slope that was about three hundred meters high. From this position, she could just make out the continuous undulations of the Temple Federation's military camp tens of miles away.
The failed sneak attack on the Holy City was not too much of a blow for her, although many high-ranking wraiths had died, and she too had nearly succeeded before failing utterly to resolve the Holy City and thus completely reverse the course of the war. However, what mattered more had been accomplished—her son, her Little Austin, had finally advanced to the 9th Rank. Although he wasn't immediately transformed into a supremely powerful being, she knew well how swiftly Little Austin would now improve.
In her previous life, she had never witnessed her son unleashing his divine might before her death. This time would be different; she would remove all obstacles in her son's path to unify this world.