Chapter 1051: The Flames of War Rage, the Nation's Gates in Peril

The air in the Long Country's highest strategic command center was so thick with tension it felt like a physical weight. Alarms, a cacophony of shrill, piercing shrieks, blared without cessation, each one a death knell for a different part of the nation's vast border. On the grand holographic map that dominated the central hall, vast swathes of the coastline and northern frontier were blinking a furious, blood-red. Officers in crisp military uniforms rushed back and forth, their faces pale,...