A little over a year had passed in the true world while Rui had spent sixteen years in the manifold in the metamorphosis. The world war had stabilized into a long, grueling stalemate between the two sides as the two alliances engaged in a grinding conflict against each other.
The first half of the year was characterized by flux. Both alliances scrambled to gather allies that could fight on their behalf. The Emperor of Harmony went on a war footing, literally, to gather as many allies as he possibly could that would contribute to the protection of the Panama Continent without the need to bring back the sea monsters situated in the Great Void Ocean.
NOVA relied on a combination of the stick and carrot to expertly manipulate several species and civilizations to attack the Kandrian Empire or their allies, while the Emperor of Harmony relied exclusively on the carrot in the form of negatron matter.
