The remaining days could seem like a lot for a strategist with a lot of preparations planned out for the incoming war, but for the ordinary beastfolk living in the valley of New Eden, each passing day felt like a heavy, suffocating countdown to execution.
While the mountain ridges groaned under the weight of Hana's rising metal fortress, an entirely different kind of storm was brewing down in the residential sectors of New Eden.
The air, once light with the sounds of sawing wood and laughter, had grown thick with a tense, antsy dread.
Rumors had begun to crawl through the mud brick alleys and crowded market stalls like a plague of locusts.
"I heard it from a traveler near the border," a hyena beastman whispered fiercely behind a stack of lumber, his ears twitching nervously. "The human female... She provoked the ancient dragons of Sun Peak. She slaughtered their high lords right inside the health center."
