On board the "Imperial Capital".
We had waited all morning and had not received any news about the start of the war. It wasn't until lunchtime that the duty communications officer brought us a telegram from the Navy headquarters.
It wasn't a message about the start of the war.
At 6 p.m. local time, Rofuss announced a final ultimatum to the Liangxia Empire through a radio broadcast from the Grey Palace.
The content was extensive, but the key point was singular.
The Liangxia Navy had to withdraw from the incident sea area within the next 24 hours, starting from the time of the cargo ship attack, which meant the deadline would be 5:30 a.m. tomorrow.
In other words, there were less than twenty hours left.
As for the reason: Liangxia vessels had sunk a Newland cargo ship.
At the time of the incident, the Liangxia Navy battleships were intercepting Newland cargo ships, so Rofuss asserted that it was the Liangxia vessels that had sunk those cargo ships.
