Once chaos began, it could not simply be stopped at will. The deeper a faction had been involved in exploring the Divine Kingdom, the greater its losses now were.
Not every faction possessed the Alpha Kingdom's ability to respond to crises, much less had someone with cheat-like advantages. Poor decisions from the upper ranks and loopholes in execution leading to rebellions breaking out everywhere were commonplace.
The Falcon Kingdom had suffered the most miserably, and the other major coastal powers had not fared much better. Their geographical advantages had earned them the earliest rights to explore the Divine Kingdom, but they had also taken the harshest blows.
With the governments of every nation too busy saving themselves, the plan to send troops to help Queen Marisol restore her kingdom was delayed again and again.
The smaller nations could not be counted on, so the obligation to deploy troops ultimately fell upon the major powers.
In order to better fulfill its international obligations, the Alpha Kingdom directly increased its deployment to fifty thousand troops.
In return, the Human Alliance would coordinate the nations unable to send troops and have them share part of the costs of this expedition.
It was not only the Alpha Kingdom that increased its deployment. The Ilibia Kingdom and the Frankish Empire also raised their forces to seventy thousand and eighty thousand respectively in response to the sudden changes in the situation.
With the troop commitments of the other major powers unchanged, the total force deployed by the human nations was set at four hundred thousand.
At the same time, the Sixth Consecrated Battalion and Seventh Consecrated Battalion would move alongside the main army.
Including the experts accompanying the armies of various nations and the Falcon Kingdom's powerhouses, there were more than eighty Holy Domain experts.
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