Seventh Shelter. Elder Council.
At this moment, the Elder Council was in utter chaos.
Even though they had entered the highest power center of the Seventh Shelter, when defeat struck, these elders were just as panic-stricken as any ordinary person.
In fact, perhaps due to their optimism regarding the situation, they were even worse off than the ordinary people.
After all, before the war began, their thinking had actually been no different from that of the upper echelons of the other shelters:
They knew defeat was inevitable in the end, but assumed it would be a gradual process, slowly falling into deadlock. In the end, after mediation among the other shelters, both sides would reconcile, and the elders could surrender on their own terms, preserving their wealth and privilege.
But... who could have guessed it—a single day brought the collapse of four states!
With those four states so far apart... it would take a whole day just to drive between them!
