REPUBLIC CLAIMED LAND
SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA
That night when Azief was talking with Sofia about their matters, an explosions rocked the archipelago in the Russian high artic in the day that its shockwave reverberated to the nearby lands and island under the control of the Republic.
Since most of Russia territory is claimed by the Republic, an expeditionary mission was sent to investigate.
They all died in that place without making contact. The Republic then detected a powerful energy fluctuations coming from the archipelago.
And then Katarina herself went to check with her Battle Maidens. Then she found out what is killing the expeditionary members.
When she arrived, most of the villages and cities in the archipelago were destroyed, turning into a desert. A desert in a place of ice.
It was highly unnatural and shouldn't have happened. She was enraged
