The world was an extravagant house, celebrating the alliance of two superpowers to end aggression. Their peace was however short-lived-with greed and distrust turning allies into foes.
General Liu of the East met with Commander Drake of the West at the battlefield, which used to be a place where their soldiers were comrades but eventually became a battleground of ruined cities for that other aggressor they had killed. Civilian casualties were only evidence of the other price to pay on power struggles.
Liu, who was emotionally torturing himself by guilt, put forward a secret ceasefire proposal. Drake was not yet sure because his government needed a complete victory regardless of the means. At the same time, he was very much aware of the fact that this would cause more innocent death. Their secret meeting would be ambushed and definitely turn into chaos.
It is stated that both sides accused one another of betrayal. The truce-ending before it began escalated into a world war. Among historians, it was termed as “The War of Shadows:” fought not only with machines, but with lies and betrayals as well. An alliance torn asunder would echo for decades in the ears of mankind.
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