Long chapter
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After Uncle Jed shared his theory, a heavy realization settled over the group. The Divine Sea Temple was not simply chasing power or territory. Their ambitions reached far beyond domination.
They were aiming for annihilation.
Not exactly the extinction of all living things, but something disturbingly close to it. What they seemed to want was the destruction of Earth itself.
The thought alone weighed down on everyone present, pressing against their chests like an invisible burden.
Leo finally broke the silence. "Boss... what do we do?"
Leo, Victor, Williams and the others had once been nothing more than ordinary men. Soldiers. Enlisted personnel who had lived simple lives before everything changed.
And that meant something else too. Somewhere deep inside them still lingered that familiar impulse, the quiet but stubborn urge to be heroes.
