As time passed, the impact of Augsburg's great victory continued to spread across the Aslant Continent.
Many people's first reaction upon receiving the news was:
"Impossible!"
"This is impossible!"
Crushing three hundred thousand enemy troops overnight had already sounded fantastical. Combined with the subsequent results, the Battle of Augsburg had killed and captured more than two hundred thousand enemy soldiers in total. It was truly hard to believe.
It made the Ancient Remnants Allied Army seem like a bunch of weaklings, as though they could be slapped to death at any moment.
Yet in the previous battles, the Ancient Remnants Allied Army had slaughtered its way through everything, and everyone had witnessed its strength firsthand.
The commanders of the major factions, in particular, all became busy. The continent had gained another classic case study that needed to be thoroughly examined and guarded against, lest a similar tragedy befall them.
Most human factions were fine with it. The improving situation on the Northern Continent was a good thing for everyone.
But there were always exceptions. Pope Pius VII was extremely displeased. Lacking the confidence to seek trouble with the Ghost Ship in the Sea of Mist, he naturally settled the score for the Church fleet's destruction on the Alpha Kingdom.
He had originally believed that, faced with the threat of the three major nonhuman races, this thorn in his side would soon suffer a devastating blow, perhaps even vanish into the river of history.
Pope Pius VII considered himself a magnanimous man. He would not dwell on past grudges with the dead, so he had simply ignored the Alpha Kingdom.
The moment news of Augsburg's great victory emerged, the situation changed instantly. The Ancient Remnants Alliance lived in the resource-poor Ice and Snow World, which meant their population was inevitably limited.