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2 Months after the reclamation of Fortress Schielde.

Distraught at the loss of his fleet and forward army. The Emperor decided to send his Royal Fleet to bombard this "Cardonia".

Words had travelled from continents to continents about the sudden return of a mystical country and it defeated the dreaded Empire of the North, the Empire of Scolus. The astonishing feat had portrayed Cardonia as the land of the Gods. Suffering zero deaths when their army of 1000 faced 40,000 Imperial troops was a favorite topic among merchants and storytellers alike.

These figures were so absurd that many countries in the Central Continent, Collective Countries of the East and the Dominion of the South dismissed as fairytale and mere propaganda.

The Empire has the strenght to at least go up against the mighty countries of the Central. Thus a country to the West defeating them is pure heresy for military officials.

But the stories demeaning the great Empire of Scolus earned the ire of their Great Leader, the