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It is a sunny morning on the Azalean Capital. The streets are filled with people going by in their every day routine. Different vehicles clogged the small streets of the Capital, as such airhips flying within the city are normal occurence. With the lack of urban planning, the city streets that dates back hundred of years would surely suffer with the current total population.During breakfast, Azalean officials then discussed their country as a whole. The Kingdom relies on the combined technology of machinations and magic. The population are a mix of elves and humans and of course halfbloods, thus they are one of the countries with high life expectancy. The Royal Family is a descendant of High Humans, a race that almost have the same life expectancy of that of of Elves, though they are rarely seen. Tge government is controlled by their parliament and much of the government bureaucracy are handled by many different ministers that have attained qualifications that their parliament could
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A Bombardier Q-400 slowly barreled down on the dirt airstrip near the Archesian Capital and within a few moments, it was airborne. Aboard the first commercial flight to Cardonia were the Archesian Princess, some of her knights, a few Archesian officials who are still against ties between Cardonia and dozens of students and scholars.For some of the passengers, it was their first time to fly. As such the pilots took the opportunity to circle the Archesian capital from above. The Archesians were astonished as they look through the glass windows of the aircraft, they were seeing their great city from above. They can't even imagine they would be able to see the city from the skies or even the idea of flying in the first place.The plane then continued on its flight path, spending a couple of hours in the air before reaching the city of Esden. That couple of hours were life changing for the Archesians, the plane effortlessly tore through the clouds.And upon setting their sights at the gia
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The arrows find their way on their vehicles in which they are hiding at. Sounds of breaking glasses can also be heard as some of the arrows found their way on some of the unprotected vehicles.The arrows were hitting accurately, just few inches nches away from the soldiers taking aim. In this pitch black night it is impossible to land such hits too close for comfort."MAN THE 50!" 2nd Lt. Ireberri shouted, as an arrow whizzed by on his right ear, prompting him to take cover."TARGETS ARE ABOVE THE TREES!" shouted on of the soldiers as he spotted some movement in the trees using his ever reliable NVGs."WAIT! WAIT HOLD YOUR FIRE!" a researcher began to shout and he sprints towards the platoom commander."They might be Elves!" the researcher uttered.Realizing that, 2nd Lt. Ireberri shouted, "HOLD YOUR FIRE!"The order was then passed around by a couple of soldiers.The .50 cal Remote Controlled Weapon Station on the Iveco LMV's were seconds aways on peppering targets on top of the tree
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After being recieved by the Queen herself, the exploration team were invited to stay inside the Palace, their vehicles are parked within the Palace walls. The Cardonian soldiers joined the Palace guards in their patrols, the exploration team then began their work. They immediately asked permission to use libraries and to interview the people, they were afraid to ask the Queen herself, thus they've done other methods, asking other elderly elves. Elves had an very long lifespan ranging 1000 years and above.All of the interviewees have one thing in common in their statement, the Cardonians were once the most weakest nation in this continent before the transfer happened. The continent before has only three countries, Cardonia and Archesia and the Naodisian Empire. Because of the looming threat of the Empire, the two countries forge an alliance between themselves.Then this is where the story became foggy. Most statements doesn't align with each other, but similar to the Archesian account
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"My Hero, I will grant you all your desires! Please help us save my country!" the King then lowered to his knees and leveled himself onto the ground and got close the woman."Hero? Where? Where am I?" after uttering the same words the woman fell unconscious.The King then panics as he don't know what to do. He ordered his knights to take the woman towards his castle, they hid the woman on one of the carriages and hurriedly set off towards the castle. The very same castle that is still standing today that house the current monarchy of Cardonia.The King then rejoiced at his castle, he threw a big celebration and it was attended by everyone at the city of Esden. The woman hasn't yet woke up and is being tended by the top doctors and mages, certain priest fron the church are also present.A whole week has passed before the woman woke up and of course she is lost. That is when the King personally rush towards her side to explain.He explained in detail on what is going on and why is she
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A P-3 Orion of the Royal Cardonian Air Force patrols the waters North of Cardonia, they are 350 kilometers out and are near the Northern Continent."Contact! Two ships!"The plane descended just below the clouds and head towards the detected vessels. Cardonia has been monitoring the situation in the Northen Continent for quite some time now.It has become a point of interest because of its supposed oil deposits and iron ore deposits way up north. Based on intel from merchants, the Demi-Human Kingdoms are vassal states of the Empire, thus trading for their oil would be impossible for the Cardonians. Cardonian oil fields and even the new Archesian ones aren't sufficient enough to accommodate their demands thus sooner or later they would need oil.The plane flew above the ship."Looks like cargo, they are oddly designed huh?" the commander said as they observes the vessel through the aircrafts FLIR cameras. The vessel is a steamship with sails, built with wood and iron, iron barrels pres
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Everyone just stood there, shocked by the revelations. They can't exactly know what to do.The demi-humans or the Giniana-ians continuously bowed towards everyone. That prompted the navy officials to say something, they were then translated."Please be on your feet, your concerns would be passed towards our authorities. For the time being, please cooperate with our procedures."With that the issue were resolved for now. The supposed Prince and Princess were then scrutinized, the two were theb escorted towards one of the buildings in the base, they were accommodated in one of the VIP rooms. Others were then escorted towards the facility wherein the crew of the Crelant were held. The facility has been turned to a proper holding area with proper bunks, bathroom and a large dining and recreation area. The "Ginians", the officers prefer to calk them that way, were astonished with how they are being treated.The situation were quickly reported to the higher ups and the Regent got wind of it
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The Diplomatic flotilla carefully steams towards the East, they are en route towards the Kingdom of Dyslala, this is the neighboring country of Azalea and is the second most powerful country in the Centrals.They are widely know for their advance machinations. The Azaleans created a perfect harmony between magic and technology, this country however, lacking the magical prowess of Elves, focused their might on technology.For hundred of years, skirmishes between the Azalea and Dylasla were a common occurence. Dylasla are a Kingdom known for their brutality they constantly raid Azalean villages and even towns, but of course with the rise of Azalea, they couldn't compete against it's now more superior military. Thus the latter agreed for a peace treaty, ending the hundreds of years of bloodshed.But for years it tried to match its Western neighbour but they still couldn't keep up, but they do however became the second most powerful country in the world.Based on information gathered on A