The sun shone brightly.
On this day, which should have been for visiting family and friends, a massive campaign in Hanyun Valley plunged the entire nation and its countless citizens into a state of somberness and oppression. The warm sun blazed in a sky without wind or waves. Tens of millions waited anxiously for the battle in Hanyun Valley to end.
No one dared to speculate on the final outcome, not even the Martial Guards who had been retired for years or the forebears of the Elders' Court. They too spent a sleepless night, anxiously awaiting news from the front line.
