Damir's death was a thunderous shock that swept across the entire field, a violent ripple that struck every corner without exception; the news spread like a detonation that did not distinguish between friend and foe, between those who wished for his fall and those who had once stood beneath his banner.
Some viewed it from a colder, more analytical angle—that this was the first individual of such immense standing to fall in modern wars; even in the brutal chronicles of ancient conflicts, figures of this caliber did not collapse so easily, did not simply vanish from the stage in a single confrontation. Not even the devastating internal war of the Destra family, a conflict that tore through its own bloodline with merciless intensity, had resulted in the death of the first son, Hedrick.
