Artifact-Same Omen

Yotia

This was the nation ruled by Kaisa.

At this moment, as he looked over the various pieces of information displayed on the strategic map,

Kaisa could not help but frown.

There is indeed something seriously wrong...

By now, his war with Mishra had lasted for several years.

During that time,

the two sides had remained locked in a stalemate.

Each had won and lost battles.

But as their clashes grew more frequent, Kaisa became increasingly aware of the strangeness on his younger brother's side.

Even though the two brothers had conflicts that were almost impossible to reconcile,

they were unquestionably blood relatives.

Moreover, they had supported one another for more than a decade during their childhood.

Thus, their understanding of each other ran deep into their bones.

To Kaisa, the current Mishra was like an utterly obvious shoddy counterfeit, filling him with discomfort and aversion from the depths of his heart.

Yet according to his probes,

the other party's memories remained intact, as though there were no substantive problem.

But that intense and impossible-to-ignore sense of discord still left Kaisa unable to let it go.

I must investigate further...

In the end, Kaisa settled on that decision.

A series of names slowly began to form in his mind.

Those people were all exceptional intelligence gatherers he knew...

Three months later.

After losing quite a few operatives and expending vast resources,

some of the information uncovered by the investigation was placed before Kaisa.

It detailed the intelligence gathered by different personnel. After a series of duplicate removals and cross-checks, the originally scattered information had been roughly organized into a relatively simple and comprehensible thread!

Very quickly,

through the information before him, Kaisa confirmed that there was indeed something gravely wrong with Mishra!

Before a certain day seventy-six years ago,