章 357: 339, The Rose Goes to War

Charles was utterly shocked when he received the news from the newspaper.

For those high-ranking officials of the empire, the great nobles, and even His Majesty the Emperor, who received the news from the battle reports, the shock was more than tenfold.

The loss suffered by the Fars Royal Navy caused everyone, from the highest to the lowest, to feel a pain beyond consolation. The empire had been accumulating these assets for over a hundred years, not something that could be achieved overnight.