Extract from The Six Seasons, Mvt. IV
Late Summer: The Annals of the Third Calamity, Sect. I106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcM6tE2kFS
Lasting for just a few hours, over twenty million perished in The Last Blitz. Fleets of steel birds opened their gates and washed in the tides of fire and shrapnel upon the heads of the Aelon innocent. Politicians scurried to their shelters. The common folk burned. The crews of aircraft reaped no reward from doing so. Only doing so by command. But it was a choice between their lives or those they have no care for. It was the last instance in history where the skies were most lethal. The Confederacy utilized their untouched stockpiles, draining every drop of black fuel in a gamble to crush the morale of the enemy’s people. That they did, however not knowing it would bring greater fury afterwards. Not knowing that when man has been backed into a dead-end, the animal inside them would awaken after ten thousand years.
Out of panic, the professional armies of the Aelon launched an attack that quickly collapsed in an attempt to silence the Confederate threat, hoping to draw them into a conditional peace. Within days, their reserves had been massacred too. Without strategy. Without a sense of theory and project, they charged into the jaws of hell. Millions of conscripts, volunteers, mercenaries, and prisoners were summoned to fill the empty ranks, giving them a false sense of hope to gain the prestige of a hero or be etched in stones as a name in a legend. Whilst the Confederates laid back and defended their trenches and furnished bunkers, hiding any intentions for an offensive, the Aelon were scraped away of power. Their enemies displayed no signs of aggression. When the Aelon realized this, they had already wasted millions more. It became a phony war before long. But that was simply how it appeared in the Aelon's naive eyes.
The dead may be statistics to generals and politicians, but in every number lies a tragedy. From tragedy births violence. Such is the way of war.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMwH6LlR4EQ
— Lycoris
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