“Who knows,” Lin Fan shrugged. “Perhaps it was inevitable. Societal strife was bound to boil over. Maybe a short, sharp pain is better than a long, slow suffering.”
The Siege of Aethelgard had cemented the new landscape of the planet, carving the borders of the post-unification world in blood and steel.
Aethelgard was the name of a continent, once home to a dozen nations. As the war escalated, the continent had somehow become the designated