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Aiwei Ruoang entered the Military Magic Machinery Research Countermeasures Office of the Sark Kingdom's Military Department General Staff Headquarters and found the atmosphere distinctly heavier than usual.
His gaze swept around the room. Seeing the unusually grave expressions on everyone else's faces, Aiwei Ruoang could not help giving a bitter smile and slowly shaking his head.
As the director of this office, which the General Staff Headquarters had established last August specifically to research countermeasures against the military magic machinery used by the Lampari Kingdom's military, he naturally received news sooner than his subordinates. He knew perfectly well why they looked so grim.
The news that had provoked such a strong reaction came from the Endless Sea west of the Sark Kingdom.
The capital of the Krusik Kingdom, located in waters roughly three hundred kilometers southwest of the Sark Kingdom's western coast, had fallen a week ago. Then, three days ago, the Krusik Kingdom had officially declared its dissolution.
There was only one reason for the fall of this maritime kingdom: the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
A month earlier, when the Xinfei Merchant Guild had dispatched a fleet to attack the Krusik Kingdom, everyone in the Sark Kingdom's Military Department, including Aiwei Ruoang, had settled in to watch an entertaining spectacle.
Although the Krusik Kingdom was actually little more than a collection of pirates and could not be considered a true nation, with nothing resembling national strength to speak of, its power was utterly incomparable to that of the continent's genuine countries. As a maritime kingdom, however, the Krusik Kingdom possessed considerable