In Golden Ears City, the atmosphere was stretched to its breaking point.
The sounds of battle cries, impacts, and the explosions of Combat Skills from the city walls were clearly audible, filling every street with panic.
Messengers ran by with frantic expressions, logistics personnel scurried to transport defensive supplies, and squads of soldiers rushed toward precarious sections of the wall in desperate need of reinforcement, all under the bellowing orders of their officers. Everything was chaotic and hurried.
However, amidst this chaos, some of the more observant soldiers and the Extraordinary Professionals remaining in the city began to notice something strange.
The noble leaders, who on any other such momentous occasion would have certainly made an appearance to pontificate and display their presence, had now vanished into thin air, nowhere to be found.
Their personal guards were still present, but not a single one of the great figures who gave the orders could be seen.
