After Fang Zheng chopped the Crimson Ogre into eight pieces and burned it to ashes, Demon Castle vanished without a trace. Immediately afterward, the Noble Allied Army guarding the imperial capital declared its surrender.
They had no choice but to surrender. When Duke Kane unleashed the Crimson Ogre, the scarlet mist it released could absorb the strength of others. As a result, the Noble Allied Army defending the imperial capital had been stabbed in the back by their own side. Before they even understood what had happened, the soldiers of the entire army collapsed to the ground, turning into a heap of limp, helpless mush. Under those circumstances, surrender was inevitable.
Thus, Yugent III returned to the imperial capital once more and declared the civil war over, the noble rebellion defeated—less than three months had passed from beginning to end, making it even shorter than Liberl's Hundred Days War.
Of course, everyone in the regular army camp knew why this civil war had been won so easily: Fang Zheng's Blizzard. If he had not cooperated with the regular army to carry out orbital airborne decapitation strikes, there was no telling how long the 4th Armored Division would have needed if it had fought head-on alone.
And now, once the war began, the 4th Armored Division merely needed to pin down the enemy's main force from the front. Fang Zheng would directly drop from the sky onto the enemy leader's head, disarm and capture him in no time, and once the higher-ups had been captured, the troops below naturally stopped resisting and obediently surrendered.
In fact, the reason the fighting had taken nearly three months was that more than half that time had been spent by the 4th Armored Division gathering its forces and traveling—well, in other words, during the entire