Late at night, at the secret base in Upper Capital.
Dozens of meters underground, the command center was brightly lit.
In the circular workspace, dozens of staff sat at their terminals, their screens scrolling with constantly updated data streams and satellite images.
The massive electronic screen on the wall was divided into dozens of sections, each displaying a different country's military activity in real time.
Troop deployments, radar signals, communications traffic, thermal monitoring of missile sites-all the information was continuously updated and compiled.
Within the workspace, each team consisted of ten staff members responsible for round-the-clock surveillance of one country.
The leader of Team One was rapidly reviewing the latest satellite images of Bear Nation's Far Eastern Military District, sliding his fingers across the touchpad to enlarge, annotate, and compare the high-resolution images.
On Team Three's screens, the dismantling of nuclear facilities within John Bull's borders was tracked down to the status of each individual missile silo.
At Team Seven's terminals, analysts were decoding an anomalous signal stream from a secret communications node in southern Gallic Rooster territory, flagging it as "suspected undeclared military communications."
Countless green dots densely covered the main screen, each representing a ninjutsu squad of Rabbit Nation soldiers deployed somewhere around the globe.
Some dots were in the dense forests of Northern Europe, some on islands out at sea, some lurked on the outskirts of towns in the Middle East's deserts, and others hid in valleys deep within South America's rainforests.
Organized into units of five to eight, these squads each carried a Flying Thunder God Mark, sensory formula scrolls, and emergency communications devices, forming an invisible global surveillance network.
At the center of the command room, a golden light lit up on the teleportation array.
Light rose layer by layer from the array's markings on