A Mysterious Power in the Far West

Itami sat in her great hall, gazing upon her advisors and the heads of various government sectors. In the months since she had developed the plans for her new naval vessels, she had been doing her best to modernize her armed forces and expand her influence across the realm. 

Because she had a smaller army than Berengar, she could arm them with the newest weapons that she had developed much more quickly than he could. Thirty thousand men had sworn their loyalty to the War Goddess, and now she was prepared to strike. 

However, before she could launch an invasion of her first target for Imperial expansion, some troubling news came from her trade minister, who laid a device on the table that had come from a merchant who had travelled to the land Itami knew as India.