The chaotic situation continued. Major powers busied themselves seeking the truth amid panic, and for a time, the situation across the continent suddenly eased.
Seeing this, the burden in Hudson's heart was also lifted.
Fortunately, a major incident had diverted everyone's attention. Otherwise, the Kingdom's pro-war forces would soon have spiraled out of control.
Looking across all of human history, the Alpha Kingdom was an oddity.
A shareholding kingdom under a feudal system—while the government appeared to hold state power, in reality, that government existed to serve the military.
Throughout the Kingdom government's operations, it was either gathering strategic supplies for the army or raising military funds for it.
All other political systems, economic policies, laws, and regulations existed to serve those two tasks.
It was the same under reformist rule, and it remained the same under conservative rule. The core had never changed.
In Hudson's view, after completing its military reforms, the Alpha Kingdom was like a speeding war chariot without brakes.
It had avoided disaster only because those steering it constantly adjusted course and avoided obstacles along the way.
But the road ahead had an end. If it kept racing forward, an accident would come sooner or later.
As someone with vested interests, Hudson naturally did not want the Kingdom to overturn. For a long time, this leader of the pro-war faction had been busy suppressing the military's radicals.
The method was very simple: intensify army training. The louder the calls for war within the military, the harder Hudson drilled them.
Once everyone was exhausted half to death, they naturally had no time for anything else. In any case, it all fell within his authority, and outsiders would only think he ran a strict army.
Nothing had gone wrong in the military, but Hudson could not suppress the