552 Misaligned Priorities

On the night of the next full moon, there was news from the East that shocked and terrified the entire population.

[The cities of Weirach, Fisch, March, Hauberg and Kupel have been eliminated through a concerted firebombing campaign by the United World Army.]

That last name, Kupel, was a city in Kanheim, to the north of the Grand Dutchies, and as far as anyone knew, the two nations weren't allied. But the United World Army had sent planes to firebomb a city of over two million, leaving few buildings standing, and only a fraction of the residents as survivors.

If they were just indiscriminately wiping out cities, how long would it be before they go to the other nations in the area? How long before they turned their weapons on the Fortress Cities of the Covens? The fact that they had killed millions in a formerly uninvolved nation without warning had shaken every nation on this continent.