Start of The War (1)

Tragedies never came alone. As the acting monitors were busy arguing among themselves, someone rushed into the headquarters, reporting that the fires on the sentry towers had been lit.

Everyone had already been in a bad state of mind before that, and the sentry towers being lit could only mean one thing: their enemies were approaching. They might have erected the towers as an early warning system, but no one was happy that it worked.

The entire fortress had already been in a state of frantic chaos. They had already done a lot of preparations before that, so it was not like they were not prepared mentally, but the current situation was out of their expectations thanks to the silver warships.