As the final battle approached, the atmosphere on the island started to grow tense.
Inside the Explorer Association on Hope Island, people clustered in groups of three or five around a simple brass-bearing machine.
That machine was a telegraph, and the people around it were crew who had not gone out to sea, each of them wearing expressions of unease and anticipation.
It was naturally nerve-racking for everyone; news had just come in that in two hours, Governor Julio and Governor Swan were going to meet.
This war concerned everyone in the North Sea Domain, and how the battle unfolded was closely related to everyone's lives.
As time slowly passed, the room became so quiet that one could almost only hear the sound of each other's breathing when suddenly, "beep beep beep beep~" the telegraph started ringing on its own.
And with the sounds, a sheet of paper with lines and dots of varying lengths began to slowly emerge.
