Chapter 202: Divine Attendants

Great Island, inside the Imperial Palace! Solarch Sovereign Takukubo Akihito and the Cabinet sat in tense anticipation, waiting for the victory report they had already pictured in their heads. Instead, the night sky flared as if someone had set it on fire. A messenger's voice rang out at once, drawn long and thin, like a funeral bell tolling. "R-Report… bad news! Our thirty thousand elite army troops have been completely wiped out! Not a single body left!" "What?" Shock rippled through the...