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At 3:00 a.m. Eastern Time, while most Americans slept, the impossible happened. Without warning, the entire United States of America vanished from Earth. Every state, city, town, military base, aircraft carrier, submarine, overseas installation, embassy, satellite, and deployed service member disappeared in the same instant. Every road, power plant, factory, airport, hospital, and farm came with it. Fighter jets sat in their hangars, tanks remained in their motor pools, and fleets continued sailing oceans that no longer belonged to Earth. Yet somehow… Everything still worked. The electrical grid never failed. The internet remained online. Cellular service continued uninterrupted. GPS satellites orbited the skies above this unfamiliar world as if they had always belonged there. Television stations, emergency broadcasts, and military communications operated without interruption, despite Earth itself no longer existing. Within minutes, NORAD, USNORTHCOM, the National Military Command Center, NASA, and every major intelligence agency reached the same impossible conclusion. America had been transported to another world. The President was rushed beneath the White House while Congress, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, intelligence directors, governors, and military commanders gathered for the greatest emergency meeting in American history. No one knew where they were. Only that they were no longer alone. Reconnaissance began immediately. Reconnaissance satellites shifted their focus toward the continents beyond America’s new shores. RQ-4 Global Hawks, MQ-9 Reapers, E-3 AWACS aircraft, P-8 Poseidons, submarines, carrier strike groups, and long-range reconnaissance patrols spread across the unknown world. What they found defied every law of science. Towering mountain ranges stretched beyond the clouds, their peaks crowned by dragons gliding through the sky. Endless forests shimmered with traces of magic and were home to ancient elven realms hidden beneath colossal trees older than recorded history. Beneath the mountains, dwarven kingdoms carved entire civilizations into stone, their legendary forges burning day and night. Across sprawling plains stood mighty human kingdoms protected by towering castles, massive walls, and disciplined armies of knights. Beastfolk nations flourished in great grasslands and dense jungles, while vast demon territories occupied volcanic landscapes where crimson rivers flowed beneath blackened skies. Scattered across the world floated islands suspended by mysterious magical forces. Ancient ruins, abandoned by civilizations long forgotten, rested beneath deserts, forests, and oceans alike. Towering magical academies trained generations of mages whose mastery over the elements had shaped history itself. The wilderness belonged to something else entirely. Dragons nested atop mountain peaks while wyverns, griffins, manticores, harpies, hydras, trolls, ogres, giants, giant spiders, chimeras, slimes, elementals, and countless other mythical creatures roamed untamed lands. Enormous sea serpents and colossal leviathans ruled the oceans, making vast stretches of water dangerous even for experienced sailors. Reconnaissance aircraft reported sightings of massive flying creatures circling high above remote mountain ranges, prompting pilots to avoid unnecessary encounters. Naval patrols identified enormous creatures beneath the waves but were ordered to observe rather than engage. The civilizations of this world possessed only medieval technology. Swords, spears, bows, castles, and sailing ships remained the foundation of warfare. But magic changed everything. Powerful mages could summon storms, raise walls of stone, heal devastating wounds, or unleash torrents of fire capable of destroying entire formations. Enchanted weapons, ancient relics, and magical barriers had become as important to this world’s balance of power as aircraft carriers and fighter jets were to America’s. Then came an even more astonishing discovery. This world was not a collection of isolated kingdoms. It was a world of alliances… rivalries… ancient grudges… thriving trade… forgotten empires… and countless wars fought over centuries. Every kingdom had legends. Every race had heroes. Every border carried scars left by conflicts long before humanity on Earth had built its first civilization. And now… A new nation had appeared. One unlike anything this world had ever seen. A nation whose strength did not come from mana… But from steel, science, and nearly three hundred and fifty million people suddenly standing on the edge of history. Neither world knew what the other intended. Both only knew one thing. History had just begun.