This war had a tremendous impact on the world.
Because the enemy had no Contained Objects, the Blue White Society did not conduct a global-scale cleanup.
Instead, it had the various countries acknowledge the fact of the Extraterrestrial Civilization invasion. For a time, the whole world erupted.
Of course, because the term used was Extraterrestrial Civilization, people everywhere instinctively assumed they were aliens.
The existence of aliens was no trivial matter. What was more, they had already attacked, destroying important areas in five countries beyond recognition.
America was hit especially hard. Its two eastern states had been devastated.
The authorities gradually released information and disclosed the details of the war. According to incomplete statistics, the combined death toll in the five war zones had reached seven million in a single day.
That did not include the enemy casualties. If those were counted as well, the entire world would be scared witless.
As more eyewitness interviews and videos of the postwar sites were released, people in countries around the world fell into a state of intense panic.
Tokyo was littered with monster corpses and ruins.
Moscow had been completely leveled, leaving behind nothing but scorched earth.
Canberra was piled high with steel megacities, war machines, and abandoned grotesque towers.
New Delhi was riddled with huge holes, as if countless tentacles had once been moving back and forth through them.
And the District of Columbia was covered in a thick layer of dust and ash, with thousands of enormous spaceships still embedded in it.
The brutal scenes of war shocked the world. Almost no one could fail to care about a conflict involving humanity's fate.
When ninety-nine percent of the world was focused on one matter, the pressure on governments was immense.
They were asked to explain themselves, reveal every detail of