The next day, dawn broke. A streak of golden light spilled through the window from the horizon, falling across the dark office desk.
The sound of turning pages continued without pause.
This was an office on the sixth floor of the City Defense Army headquarters in northern Mingdu. Luan Feng was the only one seated behind the desk.
Her neat, chestnut-brown bob framed a resolute face when she looked up. She wore a loose, dark uniform.
The desk was cluttered, while the documents off to one side had been neatly organized. She had clearly worked through the night, yet some issues remained unresolved.
After meeting the emperor yesterday, she had temporarily taken charge of Mingdu's defenses—in other words, the City Defense Army—and was waiting for the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion to return.
The problems accumulated by the long-neglected City Defense Army, however, were far beyond what she had imagined.
Since the Mingdu City Defense Army had been established, no one had ever managed to reach Mingdu. Even during the empire's greatest defeat four thousand years ago, the Three Great Nations had merely reclaimed territory that had originally belonged to them.
They had never fought a single battle.
Naturally, this had allowed a great many problems to fester. They had been kept under wraps for ages, and now that she had uncovered them, she realized—
They were a bunch of useless parasites, living off the empire while waiting to die.
Rather than sit in the office dealing with what she considered utter nonsense, she would much rather take the fight to the enemy on the battlefield.
Suddenly, three sets of footsteps sounded outside the door.
She was the only one with an office on the sixth floor of the entire headquarters, so the visitors could only be there to see