In a viewing room in the upper district of the Dawn of the Mortal World, one that overlooked the open sky, Gawain sat quietly before a broad floor-to-ceiling window that spanned an entire curved wall. The overly dazzling light above the clouds had been filtered by the crystal glass, becoming a bright yet gentle radiance that spilled into the room, illuminating its furnishings and a document resting on a small table nearby.
Gawain glanced at the document and muttered casually to the air beside him, "Honestly, this really isn't the best solution."
"But it passed in the end," Amber's voice came from the air. Her petite figure hopped out of a Shadow Rift and landed lightly beside Gawain. "That proves everyone knows there's no better option at this stage—just like you said, we can't exactly start another civil war now."
Gawain said nothing for a moment. He merely reviewed the final outcome of the Tarash Conference in silence while calculating how much time for development this conference could buy the world.
Returning the vast tracts of land along the Wasteland's edge that had already been purified to the "development nations" followed the legal principle of legitimacy on one hand, and on the other, compensated Tifon, the Highlands, Augurey, and Cecil for the immense costs they had paid during the war. After the Great Wall collapsed, these four nations surrounding the Wasteland had faced the most direct and heaviest pressure, so naturally they had paid the greatest price. No one could dispute that.
Meanwhile, the Azure Well and the core region of the Tarash Plains had been designated neutral territory. The three great empires would establish an international energy regulatory organization, contributing funds, manpower, and technology to transmit the magical energy produced by the Azure Well across the world. This was