The first step of the war was deploying the "Milky Way Mist Array." The Empire released the mist, enveloping the entire Milky Way. Its primary purpose was neither to isolate the outside gods nor to prevent Guznader from continuing to extort the Empire.
Its true strategic purpose was to seal off the Milky Way's spatial coordinates, completely cutting off the possibility of Guznader—or anyone else—opening a portal to another plane. With this move, the Empire effectively severed Guznader's reinforcements from the Abyssal Plane and any other planes he had conquered.
After completing this arrangement of absolute isolation and cutting off the enemy's reinforcements, the Empire sounded the trumpet of its counterattack. The second strategic step was to completely dismantle the greatest advantage of the undead army—its enormous, locust-like numbers.
The Empire finally revealed its trump card: the Clone Legion.
During the early stages of the war, the Empire had kept its use of clones within the narrowest possible limits. This was mainly because using them as cannon fodder in war had sparked enormous ethical controversy. Many people believed that even if they had been created through cloning, as long as they possessed souls, they should not be deprived of the dignity of being "human."
Protests had risen and fallen in waves, with people demanding legislation to halt clone production or grant clones rights equal to those of ordinary citizens. When the war had just broken out, these voices had been especially loud.
However, as casualties on the front lines continued to rise, and with the Imperial Propaganda Department guiding public opinion from behind the scenes, the media narrative eventually shifted to: "If clones had been allowed to serve in the war from the beginning, countless innocent citizens could have been saved." The protesting voices quickly fell silent.
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