Shortly after Garos' exit.
"Aaaaaargh. You cowa…"
The last of the infiltrators was killed by one of the graduation event's participants. With this kill, the curtain had fallen on the very first chapter of war. Of course, this was only the beginning.
The war had officially started. The forces of Layos and Edinburgh were about to clash time and again. There would be fewer sneak attacks and more frontal conflicts. Of course, the death toll of rankers was about to rise from both sides as the war progressed.
However, the war was a strange period for those not on the front lines. It wasn't like a faulty tap that never stopped running. Rather, there were short episodes of bloody conflicts and grim peace. The mass anxiety between such episodes defined the state of war as a whole.
The Eddinca Arena finally experienced peace. A form of peace that it hadn't felt after the graduation ceremony began.
