The smell of battle was in the air. No one in the expeditionary fleet was able to escape the likely possibility that they were about to get embroiled in combat!
It had been a long time since the Larkinson Clan as a whole actually encountered a significant threat. The majority of clansmen who had just joined up in the last year didn't know what to do for a while.
"What are we going to do?!"
"I didn't sign up for this!"
"Why aren't we evacuating civilians like us? We don't belong on the battlefield!"
"I told you guys that entering the Vulcan Empire was suicide!"
"Venerable Jannzi was right!"
An explosion of panic erupted among many Larkinsons, particularly the civilian members who were never trained for combat. Though they were warned many times that the Larkinson Clan tended to get into trouble now and then, they hadn't anticipated that this would come true this soon.
