Desperation Breeds Danger

The early morning sky over Jakarta was painted with an eerie orange glow—not from the sunrise, but from the fires raging across the city. Smoke billowed into the heavens as sirens screamed in the distance. The Nine Dragons had unleashed chaos, their strikes precise and devastating.

In a makeshift command center—a hidden basement beneath an old conservation station—Felix stared at the map of Southeast Asia spread across the table. Red markers dotted the map, each representing a location where the Nine Dragons had struck: an oil refinery in Malaysia, a fishing village in the Philippines, and a power grid in Vietnam.

“They’re hitting everything,” Kiran said, her voice trembling as she scanned the reports. “Ports, resources, villages… they’re not even hiding anymore. It’s pure terror.”

Felix slammed his fist onto the table, the sound reverberating through the room. “They’re trying to break us. They want us to fall apart under the pressure.”