Not long after, Frost summoned all the core Wizards of the Logistics Element and held a special tactical meeting.

Inside the command center, a hologram displayed the current battlefield situation of both sides, as well as the potential deployment directions of the Reaper Race, inferred from the intelligence provided by Jeming.

Frost’s expression was more grave than ever:

"From the Record Crystals and the intel Consultant Jeming brought back, in the last round, our research had just stepped into the deep-water zone when the Reaper Race launched an all-out offensive with a speed and determination far beyond anything before."

Frost’s voice echoed in the silent room: "They seem to be deliberately compressing our ’research window’. This time, in the seventh Cycle, they’re gathering even faster. It’s foreseeable that this trend will continue."

He swept his gaze over everyone: "If we cannot break this Cycle, cannot obtain a key breakthrough sufficient to overturn the situation before they forcibly drag us into a decisive battle, then... our research will forever remain at the stage of ’preliminary models’ and ’hypotheses awaiting verification’."

"If we let the situation develop like this, once the amount of accumulated knowledge reaches a certain limit, in every Cycle we will appear to be accumulating knowledge, but in fact, we’ll only be repeating the loop of ’learning existing knowledge—establishing initial hypotheses—being forced to cut off’. The ’breakthrough progress’ that truly requires long-term experiments and observation will be indefinitely postponed."

An old veteran Wizard nodded heavily: "The commander is right. Many things require continuous, stable, long-term observation and intervention experiments. With this constantly interrupted rhythm we have now, even after dozens more Cycles we might still be unable to confirm or falsify them."

"We need time—undisturbed, sufficiently long time." Another Wizard specializing in the Laws of Soul and memory supplemented, "But the enemy clearly doesn’t intend to give it to us."

The meeting fell into a brief silence.

The enemy held the initiative over "saving and loading". They could restart again and again, using mad all-out offensives to cut off the Wizards’ scientific research process.

The Wizards possessed great power and wisdom, yet at this moment it was as if their hands and feet were bound.

Jeming was also thinking.

He possessed complete memory, and his Inner Grotto Heaven stored all research data; this granted him, as an individual, the possibility of continuous research.

But that was far from enough.

An individual’s wisdom and time are limited; many large-scale experiments and complex deductions require the collaboration of an entire team and the clash of wisdom from different fields.

Individual memory... team collaboration...

A sudden spark of Spirit Light flashed through his mind.

"Since the problem of time reversal cannot be solved for the moment..." Jeming spoke slowly. His voice was not loud, but it drew everyone’s gaze. "Then, what if all Wizards participating in the research could, to some extent, retain their memories between Cycles?"

The conference room instantly fell silent, then a low buzz of discussion followed.

"Let everyone retain memory?" Frost shot a sharp look at Jeming. "You can do that?"

"No." Jeming shook his head, but light flickered in his eyes. "However, right before us, isn’t there a ready-made ’teacher’ capable of preserving part of its memories across Cycles?"

He pointed to those black light dots representing the Reaper Race on the holographic star map.

"The Reaper Race, especially the High Tier individuals, clearly can retain part of their combat experience and cognition across Cycles."

"Although we speculate there might be assistance from some ’collective consciousness’ or ’editing will’ behind this, their individual physiological basis—especially the mechanisms of information storage and retrieval—must have their own peculiarities."

"We’ve studied them for so long. Regarding their nervous system, pheromone-based memory encoding, and possible information imprints on the genetic level, haven’t we already obtained quite in-depth understanding?"

The eyes of several Wizards focusing on biology and Soul immediately lit up.

"That makes sense!" Alison stood up in excitement. "We can absolutely study and replicate the Reaper Race’s physiological or Soul mechanisms that resist memory reset, and then develop a ’technology’ that allows Wizards to also retain key memories across Cycles."

"Exactly." Jeming affirmed. "We don’t need to copy their whole system. We only need to extract its core principle—the key mechanism that anchors important information in an individual’s existence and resists the scouring of time reversal. Then, combined with our existing techniques of Soul reinforcement, memory solidification, Law Imprints, and so on, we can develop a ’Cycle memory assist’ method suited to ourselves."

"Even if in the initial stage we can only preserve crucial research data, experimental procedures, and core lines of thought, combined with my ability to carry Record Crystals over from the previous round, it will be enough for the continuity of our research to achieve a qualitative leap!"

This idea was like a spark thrown into a fuel depot, instantly igniting the passion of all Logistics Department Wizards!

"The feasibility is very high..." A Soul Science master quickly analyzed. "We already have several Cycles’ accumulation of High Tier Reaper Race samples and a basic analysis of their Soul structures and information storage patterns. If we concentrate our strength on tackling this..."

"We’ll need a massive amount of samples to validate the mechanism and extract the principles!" Another biological Rune expert added.

"We’ll also need safety and stability tests, since this touches on the fundamentals of Soul and memory..."

The Wizards chimed in one after another, rapidly sketching out the contours of this concept and beginning to discuss technical routes and difficulties.

Listening to their discussion, Frost looked to those leading Wizards responsible for the fields of biology and Soul: "If we concentrate all manpower and resources from the relevant fields and grant you top-priority sample support, what’s your estimate—how long will it take to produce an initially feasible technical proposal or prototype?"

Several Great Wizards quickly exchanged opinions, then rapidly consulted the Record Crystal abstracts summarizing all related research achievements from previous Cycles.

In the end, a highly respected Sixth Level Wizard spoke on behalf of everyone: "Commander, based on the current depth of research and our sample reserves, if we can obtain continuous, stable, and large quantities of High Tier Reaper Race live and corpse samples for in-depth analysis, and if the research process is not interrupted... our estimate is that we’ll need at least five years of continuous research to conquer the core principles and develop an initial ’memory anchoring’ technical prototype ready for testing."

"Five years..." Frost softly repeated, his gaze landing on the black light dots converging on the star map, then became incomparably firm.

"Good. These five years, I will secure for you."

He turned to Jeming and all the attendees, his voice decisive and uncompromising: "Since passive delay and defense cannot obtain a stable period long enough, then we’ll change our approach."

"Effective immediately, the entire army will shift tactics. Abandon conservative delaying attrition. Break into smaller units and operate as elite squads, launching high-intensity active harassment and sabotage-oriented offensives against Reaper Race-controlled zones. The goal is to disrupt their assembly rhythm, delay the timing of their all-out offensive, and at the same time..." 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

He paused, his tone carrying an unquestionable resolution: "Maximize the hunting and capture of the Reaper Race, especially mid- and High Tier individuals, to provide you with a steady stream of ’raw materials’ for your research!"

As soon as this order was issued, the conference room first went quiet, and then everyone understood its implications.

This was no longer a war of delaying to preserve strength, but an active strangulation war.

To obtain samples and research time, the Wizard Legion would voluntarily step into a more dangerous and more unpredictable combat environment.

It was foreseeable that under such aggressive tactics, the casualty rate of Wizards—especially Combat Wizards—would climb sharply.

Frost’s gaze swept across the crowd, and he said calmly: "This will require sacrifice. But on this Plane where you can ’load the save and start over’, sacrifice is not eternal. We’ll use the casualties of one Cycle to gamble for a possible ’key’ that can end all Cycles. I believe this price is worth it."

No Wizard voiced any objection, not even the Combat Wizards who received the order from their terminals.

In the face of truth and knowledge, the Wizards’ choices have always been unanimous.