Since the outbreak of the war, His Majesty the Emperor of the Peng Joe Empire had been working all day.
It was a challenge for him. He was not accustomed to working at such an intense pace.
Most of the time, he simply nodded, approved the ministers' proposals, and waited for good news.
Being suddenly thrust into a hectic workload left him somewhat... unaccustomed to it. He had just finished lunch and had not yet had time to rest when the ministers took him to inspect their "tank."
The word "tank" had come from the Federation. At first, no one knew that it was actually just the model name of an armored vehicle.
Instead, they mistakenly believed that the thing was called a tank in the Federation. Following some strange principle of granting naming rights to the inventor, they had also called their own creation a tank, and named it after a mythical creature.
It was called a mythical creature, but it was actually a kind of deity as well: Shulherdra, a... wolf monster.
This wolf monster had a rather... difficult-to-mention mating history. Whether gods, mortals, or certain animals, it had spared none of them.
In the end, its demigod son cut off its wolf head. Even so, it did not die, but instead transformed into two independent monsters.
One had a wolf's head and a human body, while the other had a human head and an animal body.
As for why they had chosen such a name, according to the designers, they had referenced many Federation designs, so it was essentially a "hybrid" product.
As the first generation of an entirely hybrid design, it naturally had to be named after the king of hybrids, Shulherdra. That explanation was fairly reasonable.
However, they would not use the name of this