The military had always been an extension of politics, but viewed from another angle, military outcomes could in turn determine the direction of a political era.
They were inherently two sides of the same coin. In the end, both were means for certain groups to pursue their own interests. Whether in theory or practice, they could never truly be separated.
"We need a Great Counterattack, one that proclaims the New Kingdom's flourishing progress and declares the necessity of our existence."
The Kingdom of Dawn—its very name revealed the history of this people and this nation. They needed a victory, an undisputed Great Counterattack, to prove why this nation needed to endure.
Whether ordinary civilians, military formations grinding it out on the front lines, busy merchants, workers, artisans, or even the lords and councilors, they had all remained in the long night for too long. All of them longed to see the day when the morning sun rose.
So if you could not bring the dawn, what reason did the Kingdom of Dawn have to continue existing?
"We need a victory to prove that our arrival has meaning, to prove that the intervention of us East Country People benefits the entire world, to prove that we will become part of this world's history. No—we will become its true core."
The Eastern Kingdom wanted to see a war. The agreement from a year and a half ago had become reality, and they had begun comprehensive investment in this world on every front.
What pleased them most was that this world and this New Kingdom had not reached the stage of "national awakening." They did not even possess a so-called "world concept." The East Country People already held advantages in culture and economics; completely Eastern Kingdom-izing it was merely a matter of time.