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The silence wasn't peaceful.
It was tense, scary, and so brittle that it could snap at any moment.
Nobody dared to speak; some didn't even dare to breathe loudly. Everybody just waited until the moment arrived where everything went to hell.
All sides of the defense walls were manned and equipped with all sorts of defense mechanisms. Soldiers, officers, knight captains, lord commanders, war generals, and high marshals—the entirety of the human army—were all disposed of the duty to protect their homes.
Behind these manned walls were the scared civilians, the majority of whom are hiding in bunkers guarded by superhumans to increase their security. It didn't matter even if they weren't there to see what's happening because they could all feel it.
