At the height of Inaga II's reign, the Empire and the Blazing Flame Lands erupted into a full-scale conflict. The Nemasas kings, who faced the Empire across the Farflame Desert, were direct participants in that war.
That war had been inevitable for both the Empire and the Blazing Flame Lands. The two sides had accumulated countless contradictions and conflicts long before then, and only a military clash could determine who would rise and who would fall in their contest for commercial dominance. Not to mention that separatists along both borders and within both nations had always wanted to use the other side's power to help themselves break away from the Empire or the Blazing Flame Lands. War between the two was inevitable, and certain to break out within a few decades.
But what the Blazing Flame Lands had not expected was that under Inaga II's leadership, the Empire's war potential soared at a breakneck pace, while his personal strength expanded with astonishing speed. Before they had even prepared for total war, the Empire's great army was already armed and waiting.
Had the Blazing Flame Lands not received support from all sides at the time, had nationalist sentiment not awakened within the country, and had the Azure Heaven Royal Court and Ridgehold not kept the Empire's east and north entangled, the Nemarsas Bloodline would likely have been swept into the Tranquil Sea by the Empire's steel torrent in less than a few months.
The Empire of that era had imposed its might upon all Terra. Even the ancient and traditional Ganterigum Republic felt the pressure.
Yet no one understood why the Empire had chosen to target the Blazing Flame Lands instead of Ridgehold, which was easier to deal with and possessed the laws of bloodline. Why had it mobilized the Eastern