PS: I apologize; I've been truly busy for the past month, and my inspiration also waned. The following four chapters were published without completion. I will surely make up for them in the following days. If you see this line of text, please refresh the page in a couple of days to check. If this line is not here, then it is the revised version.
"Your Majesty, our reconnaissance airships have suffered significant damage and can no longer support subsequent scouting missions." Mount Fuji Headquarters.
Manina still sat erect in the command center, opposite him was a digital map displaying the real-time dynamics of the reconnaissance airships.
Originally, the digital map showed 300 little red dots proceeding along their predetermined routes, but now these dots had all deviated from their paths. Even more dots had vanished, losing contact with the headquarters.