Fear

The monster wave of November 1034, when a massive army numbering in the millions descended upon the Empire, ended with astonishingly few casualties.

But dealing with the aftermath was not so simple.

Disposing of the bodies of those killed by chemical weapons was more complicated than the usual process of handling the dead.

They couldn't use the old method of simply burning the corpses. There was a risk that the chemicals would become airborne and spread through the atmosphere.

As a result, disposing of the monster corpses strewn before the defensive line had to be handled differently.

First, they couldn't bury them in the Northern Territory. Burying chemically contaminated corpses without due care could cause a disaster by severely polluting the groundwater.

So they had to dig a pit far from the defensive line and gather the corpses there.

And the corpses of monsters melted by chlorine and phosgene were anything but a pleasant sight.

Even monsters with hides tougher than human skin had their flesh melted and fused together, and lay dead after vomiting blood and pieces of their organs.

Seeing this, it was only natural to wonder, 'What if these weapons were used against humans?'...