Infiltration, Terminator and a Literal Hard Head

The reason why taking the leaders out first was a commonly used strategy was naturally because it was effective.

Once the leaders who had the authority to make decisions were out of the picture, nobody else in this secret base would have the authority to activate the self-destruct system.

This was an inevitable choice.

Until the very end, nobody would be stupid enough to give that sort of authority to mid- and low-level management; it would be a joke if the base self-destructed just because the enemy took care of a few small soldiers.

This base's timed security check-ins were at 10-minute intervals.

If nothing went wrong, it would still only take at most 10 minutes for the others to notice that something wasn't right with the surveillance room.

This meant that Luke had to take care of several important targets in under 10 minutes.

"Play a BGM, Polaris!" he casually instructed. "Born to Die is a good one."