Ghosts and Specters
When Ves read learned a bit about how the elite DIVA infiltrators managed to complete their challenging and risky sabotage missions with ease, he developed a new appreciation of covert operations.
Not every problem had to be solved by throwing a mech army at the enemy. It was impossible for him to use the Mars as a cudgel to bash in the heads of everyone who got in his way.
There were many times where confronting an adversary head-on amounted to a cure that was worse than the disease.
In such situations, the ability to solve a problem through finesse rather than brute force became a lot more valuable.
As much as the Black Cats had grown and expanded by an immense degree under Calabast's stewardship, the former Hexer was only human.
Setting up a network of informers and recruiting a lot of spies was not that difficult as long as the people in charge knew what they were doing.