As the Frost Sky Constellation gradually climbed to its highest point in the sky, the chill of late autumn spread across the entire northern region, and the whole Alliance began operating with unprecedented efficiency.
Postwar reconstruction, economic recovery, the gathering and relief of war refugees, massive compensation efforts, enormous material deployments spanning the entire continent, and one new policy after another issued by Alliance nations to stimulate the market and bolster public morale—things unimaginable in the old age were now taking place. The vast, isolated world of the past seemed to have suddenly "shrunk" after this war. Even villagers living in remote countryside began learning of the world's astonishing changes with surprise through newspapers, broadcasts, or travelers' casual conversations.
Just as the Cecil Empire often declared in its foreign propaganda, the Circumcontinental Route and the overland cross-border trade network were connecting the scattered world into a whole, while the spread and development of communication methods extended everyone's gaze toward distant places they had never imagined. The sudden Wasteland War had dealt heavy blows to many nations, yet it had also greatly accelerated this process of "connection."
In the Ogre Tribes Nation, large numbers of engineering personnel from Cecil and the Dwarf Kingdom were arriving one after another. Reconstruction teams were also transporting urgently needed bulk supplies into the Tribal Nation through the Circumcontinental Route, cross-border railways, and air routes. They were concentrating their efforts on several human, Spirit Race, and orc cities that had been severely damaged in the war, hoping to restore their basic functions as much as possible before the cold winter arrived, thereby accommodating the greatest possible number of refugees and easing the burden on other regions.
In the heartland of the Tribal Nation, at the foot of Ancestor's Peak, within Helm's Deep City, the city governed