Long River Town had been rather crowded lately.
Several tens of thousands of people had followed Amy to Long River Town. They had all once lived around Lion City, and nearly all of them were commoners.
As for the nobles, most of them had fled to places they considered safer by the end of last year, such as Fieltzwe or the Bacchus Empire...
Most had run away in advance, while a small number had surrendered at the last moment.
The nobles of Lion Territory were remarkably adaptable creatures...
They had once regarded the Fieltzwe people as filthy sea raiders and sneered at the Bacchus Empire's centralized system. They had viewed Lionheart Kingdom as the center of the world and talked endlessly about chivalry.
But when war arrived, they swiftly abandoned their "center of the world" and just as swiftly discarded their chivalry...
Perhaps people were simply fickle.
Amy had changed quite a bit too.
She had become somewhat gloomy. She no longer greeted merchants with a friendly smile, nor did she run around with the female soldiers of the Griffin Claws, shouting as they "upheld justice."
Over the past year, she had been busy—busier than anyone else.
She had done everything she could to keep Pande Bank operating through that difficult year, stabilize the monetary system, and preserve the fighting strength of most organized troops to the greatest extent possible.
Unless one stood in her position, it was difficult to understand how much hardship she had endured.
The rudimentary financial system Li Ang had created actually carried many lingering problems. A year ago, when Li Ang had been missing for two months and Lionheart Kingdom had been mired in war, Pande Bank had suffered a bank run.
Amy had exhausted every means, robbing Peter to pay Paul, and barely managed