"Well said!"
Long Qianshan slammed a fist onto the table with a deafening bang. His aged face shone with satisfaction and admiration.
"That's what a Dragon Kingdom soldier should be!"
Xu Anbang nodded approvingly. A sharp gleam flashed through his cloudy old eyes.
Ye Jincheng looked at his grandson, his gaze full of conflicting emotions: pride, worry, and, above all, the relief of passing the torch.
Yue Xiaofei's words put an end to every argument in the conference room.
Fight!
It was their only choice!
Long Qianshan sat back down, swept his gaze across the room, and said gravely, "If we're going to fight, we strike hard and fast!"
"Our conventional forces and command structure are no longer enough to deal with an enemy like this."
"We must establish a new agency with the highest authority, dedicated solely to this crisis!"
He turned to Ye Jincheng. "Elder Ye, it's time to bring out your proposal."
Ye Jincheng nodded, took a prepared document from his briefcase, and handed a copy to everyone present.
Five words stood out in bright red on the cover:
[Swordbearer Act]
Yue Xiaofei took the document and quickly flipped through it.
The contents were staggering!
The act proposed establishing a supreme agency to counter supernatural threats, one above every conventional military and administrative body in the Dragon Kingdom: the "Swordbearer Organization"!
The organization would have the authority to act first and report afterward. It could directly mobilize and command every combat-ready resource in the Dragon Kingdom, including its military, intelligence, research, and logistics assets!
Its sole mission was to root out traitors at home and repel False Gods abroad!
And the organization's supreme leader would be known as—
The "Supreme Swordbearer"!
Everyone's breathing quickened when they reached that line.
What kind of agency was this?
This was