On the planet Jarilo-VI, at the Silvermane Guards' headquarters in Belobog.
A girl with long silver-gray hair sat in military uniform, her black-stockinged legs crossed.
She set down the pen she had been using to review military documents.
She took out an old-model phone with a small screen.
She watched the Starstream Livestream Room feed that had suddenly popped up.
"Hmm? Is the Conqueror Legion streaming again?"
"Has that castle among the stars come under attack by monsters again?"
"Could these armored monsters be the Antimatter Legion Mother spoke of..."
She watched the fierce fighting on her phone screen.
The young general's delicate brows drew together.
Her face, as lovely as jade, was filled with seriousness and concern.
As for matters beyond their world...
After the Conqueror Legion's last Stars Live broadcast...
Under Bronya's repeated questioning...
Cocolia had unlocked the Supreme Guardian's Data Bank.
She had shown Bronya many secrets unknown to ordinary citizens.
Nanook, the Aeon who wielded boundless destructive power.
The Antimatter Legion under his command had ravaged the stars for a thousand years.
They had destroyed countless worlds.
The vast numbers of monsters in the livestream before her...
Were identical to those in the historical photographs preserved in the Data Bank.
Bronya knew.
The white planet beneath her feet, named Jarilo-VI...
Had once been a living world with vast rainforests and oceans.
Every calamity had begun seven hundred years ago.
It had started with the arrival of the Antimatter Legion and the cataclysmic war that followed.
Even when the planet had been at its peak...
Jarilo-VI's native armies...
Had collapsed completely under the Antimatter Legion's assault.
In the end, a terrifying Eternal Freeze that blotted out the sky...
Had destroyed the entire planet's ecosystem.
It had buried the vast majority of the Antimatter Legion's soldiers.
Under the