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Ang City, outside the city, military camp.
Kael, clad in military uniform, stood ramrod straight beside Aio. Kate, his rugged features unchanged despite the impending battle.
War?
For Kael, it was truly just another day.
The Empire had long ceased to see any major wars on the surface.
But in the shadows, localized conflicts were incessant.
Both domestic and foreign.
As a colonel in the Empire, Kael had been involved in far too many to count.
It was these countless battles that had taken him from a lowly soldier of humble beginnings to the rank of colonel and then, without leaving a trace, back to his hometown: Ang City.
This was the place he was sworn to defend.
"For Ang City!"
"For..."
"'Night Owl'!"
Kael thought silently to himself.
His already determined eyes grew even more resolute, like bedrock, as he gazed into the distant sky.
Within the camp, numerous radars whirled ceaselessly.
One by one, the anti-aircraft guns shed their everyday camouflage.
