Annie's intervention forced through Yala's decree to enter the war.
Even though most of the empire's Legendaries did not want to take part in the war.
They had no power to resist.
With Annie and Yala on the same side, most of Atlantis's veteran Legendaries would stand with them.
Although the newly arrived Legendaries were more numerous, they could not unite at all.
For one thing, they had no leader with enough prestige and strength to lead most of them. For another, over the past few years, many Legendaries had already integrated into the empire's various factions.
Thus, even though none of these newly arrived Legendaries wanted to join the war, they lacked the means to resist Yala and Annie's forceful push.
Of course, they could also choose to leave Atlantis, but where could they go after leaving?
The war between the New and Old Continents was now far more intense than before. Not a single human power in the world had escaped it, and Legendaries fell every month. If they returned to either continent, they would most likely be sent to the front lines to die.
In Atlantis, by contrast, even if they joined the war, their chances of surviving would certainly be higher than on either the New or Old Continent.
January, year 41 of the Calendar of the Gods.
Yala and Annie each led forty Legendaries, twenty Legendary Battleships, over ten thousand warships, and an army of one million to invade the seas east and west of the empire.
They went to war against both the New and Old Continents simultaneously, without a declaration.
Before this, the Atlantis Empire had controlled only a few islands near the Storm Sea along the entire Boer Sea Route. In less than a month of this campaign, the empire brought virtually