Chapter 1172
Over the next few days, the Earth Sphere experienced its most chaotic yet most peaceful period in recent times.
Although the Void Envoys had been driven back, they had left countless ruins across Earth. Numerous cities had been attacked, resulting in countless civilian and military casualties. Coupled with the struggle between DC and the Federation, the entire planet seemed as though it had only just emerged from a war, with who knew how many undercurrents surging beneath the surface.
Yet peace had come for the same reasons. The threat of alien invasion was gone, and the war between the Federation and DC had stopped. No one had to worry about artillery shells falling on their heads again, leaving Earth with the appearance of a world waiting to be rebuilt from ruin.
The Federation agreed to every condition Xiao Ran proposed and established a new federal government in the shortest possible time. With the complete separation of military and government, it lost all military authority. Even though Xiao Ran had agreed that the Federation's garrison forces would nominally remain under Federation control, they would in reality still be under his command.
As for DC, after a meeting between Xiao Ran and Bian, Bian relinquished most of his control over the DC military to Xiao Ran. He also gave up most of the territory DC had seized from the Federation, retreating into one corner and occupying a single continent. DC transformed from its former rebel military organization into its original research institution—a New DC with its own defensive forces, effectively a new nation—and began actively cooperating with Satellite Integration in military consolidation.
Xiao Ran, Revil, Char, Cruze, and the others led by them were likewise plunged into endless work. They did not interfere in Federation government affairs, but integrating the