Summoning the Great Union: A new front

Chapter 4- Emissaries

{ Central Calendar year 1639, April 30th }

Principality of Qua Toyne, governmental meeting

"This concludes the report on the large naval battle in Rodenius's waters."

Officer Breweye, who had observed the battle, was invited to the meeting to give the report and serve as reference. All other attendees had in their hands printed copies of the battle report. The room was completely silent.

"So, what kind of report is this exactly? The Union sent out only Nineteen ships, challenged Lauria's fleet of forty-four hundred, then actually sunk fifteen hundred of them? On top of that, they faced over three hundred dragon riders with air support, and turned them all into mincemeat? And on top of that, their eight ships suffered no casualties? It's written here 'personnel loss: zero.' No one died?! And let me just add that our fleet sat around doing nothing.

If you told me that this was a fairy tale, I'd have said 'no, this is far too outlandish for a fairy tale!' I don't want to accuse a navy officer of coming to a state meeting and deliberately lying his ass off, but you need to at least keep your story grounded in reality and not give us this pile of fantasy horse shit."

Everyone thought pretty much the same; the observer's report was that unbelievable.

"Didn't you guys in Foreign Affairs say they would only send the bare minimum in reinforcements?"

People started lobbing insults around. By all rights, repelling Lauria's invasion and alleviating some of the national crisis should be cause for celebration, but this battle report was just so absurd that it actually raised people's fears instead.

Prime Minister Kanata motioned for silence and made to speak. "In any case, the naval invasion was stopped this time. While there are still around three thousand enemy ships at large, even if the eight reinforcement ships were to be lost, we have earned some time before we need to worry about another seaborne attack. Does the Ministry of Military Affairs have any news on the ground war?"

"Currently, Lauria has begun construction in the area around Gim. After the failure of the naval invasion, we believe they are strengthening Gim's defenses in order to resume their ground invasion. That being the case, we have determined that any strategies to break through their defense lines are no longer viable," the minister reported.

"With regards to The Union, they have already finished building their military base in the Daidar plains just a couple kilometers from Ejei, they are planning to use it for 'a special operation' they say..."

"They finished it this fast? to build a base as large as that would take about a couple of month's to finish. Including that humongous runway."

"Well, through the use of their 'heavy machinery' they completed it in just about three weeks."

All the officials were stunned. If they tried to make a base that large with the runway, it would've take them a half a year. Meanwhile at Airbase Alpha in the Daidar plains, hundreds of Mamoth bomber's were being loaded into their respective hangar's. Waiting for order's.

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Kingdom of Lauria, royal capital Jin Hark, Castle Hark

The 34th king of the Laurian Kingdom, 34-year-old Hark Lauria, shivered in bed.

In the Great Naval Battle of Rodenius some days ago, the emerging nation calling itself The Union joined the battle and decimated Lauria's forces, completely annihilating 350 dragon riders and sinking 1,400 ships. Furthermore, there were no confirmed reports of Lauria's own attacks causing any casualties or even battle damage whatsoever.