A single beat of a butterfly's wings was enough to unleash a storm.
And that was exactly what was happening now.
Three days after Cront's Sixth Army failed to take Delai Port, Francis finally made its move, sending the Fifth and Sixth Army Groups, a total of 400,000 troops, to attack Cront. Morale ran high throughout the Francis forces. They swore to reclaim the territory Cront had seized in the war and wipe away their past humiliation.
Meanwhile, on the eastern front, the Olucci Empire also committed its Second Army Group to an offensive against Cront.
Both countries had acted because of the Battle of Delai Port.
Cront's Sixth Army had lost that battle. Although the Empire had won, Delai Port had been reduced to ruins, and rebuilding it would naturally take time. This was no magical world, after all. Sending a few mages to cast spells and restore buildings blown to pieces simply wasn't possible.
Francis and the Olucci Empire had seized the moment: the Empire was focused on rebuilding Delai Port and had no attention to spare, while the Kingdom of Kront had suffered another crushing defeat that sent morale plummeting.
And the Empire really did stay out of it, because Her Majesty the Queen had more important matters to attend to.
Just as public controversy reached a fever pitch across the Empire, Her Majesty finally acted.
First, she deployed the army-but to everyone's surprise, she did not choose to disperse the protesters. Instead, she first sent troops to surround every bank in the Empire and announced that all banks throughout the Empire would temporarily close, effective immediately.
On the surface, the Queen's move seemed baffling, completely at odds with the situation at hand. Yet there was no denying that it immediately seized everyone's attention.
After all, the