Southeast Asia was the region hardest hit in this Plane War.
On one hand, they had simply been too weak. On the other, their coastlines were absurdly long, with most of the region consisting of islands. Some countries were even entire archipelagos.
Complete extinction or becoming a living hell—that was the current state of the region.
Most national systems had been destroyed, and the law of the jungle had returned to reality. It had become one of the most chaotic regions in the world, where moral boundaries, including human trafficking, were constantly being pushed lower.
The survivors there had either already become Meatmen or lived worse than dogs.
In such an environment, if a major power could sweep through the region in the name of humanity's savior, restore order from chaos, and perhaps even unify Southeast Asia, it could become a superpower occupying vast territories.
There were indeed few people and much land now, but as long as they seized the moral high ground and the territory, waited a few decades for a new baby boom, then spent another dozen years on education, wouldn't they become the absolute masters of this region?
And that superpower was the Mount—cough, the Starmen Federation!
It was quite a remarkable country. Exactly how remarkable was something that could probably take days to explain, but it had indeed endured this disaster. The cost it paid might have been falling from the world's most populous nation to merely one of the top ten.
Even so, it still possessed the confidence to swallow the world whole.
The relatively intact Mountainous Country and the great power Starmen both had their sights set on all of Southeast Asia, even South Asia. They were fiercely competing across every front, each hoping to become humanity's light and salvation beacon in this