Time slipped by to April 30 in the 1508th year of the Marine Calendar.
It is now eight-fifty-three in the morning.
RL1550 Area of the Red Line.
The spring weather was bright and pleasant, the sun shone warmly, and a gentle breeze blew.
Devoid of the sweltering heat of midsummer and the piercing chill of deep winter, a night rain had made the air even fresher and more humid.
Yet it could do nothing to shake the stern and majestic murderous aura surging into the sky within the grounds.
This was the parade ground of the university department at the War Military Academy.
Today, this academy hailed as the "cradle of stars for World Government officers" was welcoming its once-every-three-years grand event.
The opening ceremony for the All-Army Officer Combat Assessment.
The originally spacious grounds had been expanded through the use of an Undetectable Extension Charm.
Its internal space far exceeded what was visible from the outside.
It was vast enough to accommodate over ten thousand people without looking the least bit crowded.
A full one thousand officers and soldiers stood silently within the grounds like a forest of steel, arrayed into two distinct, massive square formations.
Half of them wore pure-white Coats of Justice, as cold and murderous as a snowfield, representing the Marine Headquarters that patrolled the vast Star Sea.
The other half wore pitch-black Coats of Justice, carrying the heavy oppression of scorched earth, representing the Army Headquarters that conquered the myriad realms.
Black and white stood in sharp contrast, yet they formed an organic whole, together constituting the most powerful military cornerstone of the World Government.
Sunlight shone down upon these officers and soldiers, reflecting varied auras.
The sheer variety of their races could be called a fantasy exhibition.
The humans, greatest in number and resolute