The atmosphere in the Lighthouse Nation president's office was somewhat strange.
Madara Uchiha, dressed in a black suit, sat in the chair behind the desk.
He had one leg crossed over the other, his fingers interlaced before him.
His indifferent gaze rested on President Darell, who knelt before the desk with his head lowered in silence.
"What a boring world. The technology they developed is decent enough, but individual strength is far too weak."
Madara Uchiha commented without the slightest restraint.
Then his black eyes, returned to normal, shifted to several items on the desk.
The most conspicuous and largest of them was an opened square black bag.
Beside it lay a white plastic card resembling a bank card.
The white card was engraved with a string of black numbers and English Script code.
That code was actually the "key" to opening the black bag—the password that had to be entered.
And this "black bag" was the so-called "nuclear briefcase," whose interior was jokingly referred to as the "football."
Since this "black bag" first appeared, it had never left the side of successive presidents.
Even when they went out, they took it with them.
However, five elite officers selected from the Three Armies were also needed to act as bodyguards and carry it for them.
Inside the black bag were an aluminum alloy box-shaped machine, two black-covered books, a document, and a black card.
This box was not, as outsiders imagined, a nuclear missile launch device.
It was actually a communications device for the emergency broadcast system.
If an emergency suddenly occurred in the Lighthouse Nation while the president was out enjoying himself,
he could use this communications device to send information to the national warning system, which would then disseminate it across the country.
Of course, he could also