Emerald Palace. Hudson, who had arrived at the Royal Capital with the investigation team, had not yet had time to deliver a summary report on the Calamity of Ten Thousand Years when news arrived that an Avalart Kingdom delegation would be coming to inspect the country.
Reform had never been a novel term.
Leaving aside the distant past, quite a few countries had carried out internal reforms in recent years alone. There had been successful cases, but far more had failed.
For example, the now-destroyed Warhammer Kingdom was the best cautionary tale.
Political reforms triggered by internal power struggles had directly caused the country to split apart, after which it perished under the invasion of alien races.
A group of small states on the Northern Continent were another example. Their failure was not due to reform itself, but because they were too small and had too little time.
They had just decided to learn from the Alpha Kingdom and reform their military systems, only to be wiped out in the Continental War before they had even finished.
If they had begun their reforms ten or twenty years earlier, the situation on the continent would look entirely different today. Perhaps they still could not have resisted the allied forces of the Elves and the Ancient Remnants Alliance, but they would at least have held out longer.
Unfortunately, reality had no "if." Of all the reforms hurriedly launched amid crisis, only the Moxi Duchy had succeeded.
However, the Moxi Duchy's circumstances were unusual. Their internal reforms had only succeeded because the Beastfolk had done them a huge favor.
Their original political and military systems had both been crippled by the Beastfolk invasion.
During the war, the military had also been placed in Hudson's hands and heavily influenced by the Alpha Kingdom.
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