For the people of Deburg, it was a day that felt utterly surreal.
At first, when the piercing alarms rang out, the people of Deburg were terrified. They tremblingly hid in their homes, waiting in fear and unease for the fighting to reach them.
But-after waiting all day, what came was not war, but the announcement that the Empire had occupied Deburg!
The bewildered residents stepped outside, only to discover in astonishment that the soldiers and Chimeras of the Kingdom of Kront had vanished from the streets. Only cold Mecha and armed imperial soldiers remained on patrol, and the flag of the Kingdom of Kront that had once fluttered above Deburg had been replaced by the imperial flag!
Wait, what on earth was going on?!
The residents of Deburg felt as though they had spent the day dreaming. When they woke up that morning, they were still citizens of Kront. How had they become citizens of the Empire before nightfall?
Soon, their questions were answered-the Empire had broken through the three defensive lines Cront had established in front of Delai Port, completely routing two army groups!
The residents of Deburg found the news utterly unbelievable. Before this, Cront's newspapers had praised those three defensive lines to the skies, claiming that even if the Empire managed to break through them, its forces would be exhausted and pose no further threat.
And now-what on earth had happened?
The Empire made no attempt to hide the details. The day after it captured Deburg, newspapers throughout the Empire carried the news on their front pages.
The reports also stated outright that the reason they had crushed Cront's defensive lines was simple: the Empire had developed an entirely new kind of shell, called a guided missile!
And these guided missiles had a range of roughly