Eleven years earlier, the allied forces of the Xinfei Merchant Guild Guard Corps and the Rulson Kingdom had routed the combined armies of the Candel Empire and the Malo Empire on the Tara Plain in the Candel Empire's central province. In one stroke, they had shattered the Two Great Empires' will to resist and forced them to sign a ceasefire agreement.
In that battle, the ultimately decisive factor had been a single attack launched by the Xinfei Merchant Guild's Mana Airship Battalion.
That one attack alone had leveled a mountain and severely devastated the ground for several kilometers around it, a testament to its terrifying power.
It was precisely because they had witnessed that attack from the Xinfei Merchant Guild's Mana Airship Battalion firsthand that the Two Great Empires had completely lost their will to resist and accepted Xu Yi's demand for a ceasefire and peace talks.
Without exaggeration, that single attack had completely changed the situation across the Sains Continent and laid the foundation for the peace it had enjoyed over the past eleven years. Its contribution had been immense.
The Xinfei Merchant Guild's Mana Airship Battalion had launched that attack, but the weapon responsible for its terrifying destructive power had been the predecessor of the enormous warhead before him-the Mana Space Chain Collapse Guided Missile.
Eleven years earlier, the Xinfei Merchant Guild had only just begun exploring this field. Although it had acquired such a terrifying means of attack, it had actually possessed only three shots.
If that first attack had not utterly broken the Two Great Empires' resolve, the Xinfei Merchant Guild would still have had to rely on conventional weapons to secure victory.
But eleven years had passed, and the Xinfei Merchant Guild had not only fully mastered this uniquely terrifying means of attack, it had