Early July.
The Amsterdam regional government suddenly announced to the public that a new, highly virulent infectious virus had appeared within its borders. Controls would now be imposed across the entire region, with certain high-risk areas placed under lockdown.
To ensure the policy was implemented without error, every police force within the region was mobilized.
For a time, Amsterdam was engulfed in flashing red and blue lights and piercing sirens.
Quite a few of the sharper citizens had already caught an unusual whiff of gunpowder. They were rather puzzled. They regularly followed international news, but they had heard nothing about Youyang going to war with anyone.
Aalsmeer municipal government parliament building.
"Order! Order! Order!"
Gray, the district representative standing at the podium, pounded the desk to quiet the clamoring chamber.
"Councilor Gray, are you certain you intend to formally reveal the supernatural to the public in a week?" a somewhat elderly member of the Qualified demanded.
"Yes, everyone."
"Not only will we reveal the [Holy Sun] to the public, we will also restructure the Amsterdam regional government. The [Holy Sun Government] will then be Amsterdam's sole legitimate government," Gray declared loudly and passionately from the podium.
"What about the peacekeeping forces? They will return eventually," another councilor continued to question Gray.
"We have already formed a supernatural force of over three thousand. Everyone, over three thousand fully armed supernatural beings are enough to rival a conventional force of fifty thousand. And this will only be our beginning. We will declare war on them first, in the name of liberating the [Holy Beast]!"
"What about the public?"
Another question rang out from the chamber. By then, the hall had once again descended into a clamor, so Gray had no time to see who had asked such an obvious "stupid question."
"**Order!