The commanders present graduated from the Imperial Military Academy as elite students, earning battlefield achievements in Sintra worthy of their credentials.
They were promoted to command through their prowess on the battlefield.
Yet, even as they prided themselves on having witnessed the brutality of small skirmishes and the grandeur of major battles, this intelligence report instilled an inexorable sense of chill with its absurd and eerie defeats.
The information in this report surpassed their common knowledge.
Humans... can they really accomplish such feats?
Meanwhile, rumors that had recently begun to circulate in the camp unconsciously surfaced in many minds.
This guerrilla unit known as 'Embers' was very young, emerging prominently only after the Ring Mountain fire.
It was said that during that fire at Ring Mountain, the esteemed Duke Adal's mixed-force division was crushed, leaving no survivors... all supposedly by a single individual!
