The beastfolk army withdrew, and after successfully recovering the lost territories, the Kingdom Army also began pulling out in batches.
As for the Near East Region targeted by the kingdom, there was not even a single soul there now. There was simply nothing worth guarding.
The army's hasty withdrawal was mainly due to the enormous expenditure of money and provisions, which the kingdom's finances could not sustain.
For a feudal dynasty, war had always been the heaviest burden. No matter how advanced the Alpha Kingdom's mobilization system was, it could not change the fact that its productive capacity remained backward.
Unlike the previous beastfolk invasion, when everyone had fought endlessly over spoils as soon as the war ended, this time their enthusiasm was clearly much lower.
In recent days, quite a few nobles had come to Hudson to pull strings, but all of them had set their sights on ownerless land within the kingdom.
Everyone looked utterly disdainful toward the lands of the Northern Seven Provinces, let alone the even more remote "Near East Region."
Whether the land was fertile did not matter in the slightest. Its proximity to the Orc Empire alone was enough to make the nobles recoil.
No matter how much they liked fiefs, they could not throw away their lives for one.
Given the relationship between the kingdom and the beastfolk, peace would last three to five years at most. Once the beastfolk recovered, turmoil would inevitably rise again along the border.
With the constant threat of beastfolk attacks, how could anyone develop production? Their routine harassment alone could wreck a territory's economy.
Following the practices of the old Northern Nobles, borderland fields were simply left fallow. The main sources of territorial revenue were only three: royal subsidies, smuggling, and slave trading.
The territorial income might