A Major Shift in the World Order

Inspired by Hobart, Fenebote, Lenburg, and Masi also began describing their respective countries' demands.

Lenburg and Masi's losses had actually been caused by the Feneport Kingdom, yet they were now demanding reparations from the defeated nations as well.

Even with the International League as a prerequisite, the negotiations went through repeated deadlocks. It took long arguments to reach a resolution, and those resolutions could easily be overturned at the next day's meeting.

The only matter everyone tacitly accepted was that the South Baylam Duchy would receive the five colonies it had demanded.

After all, both Intis and Fosac had lost much of their fighting spirit. Once the war began, those colonies had surrendered or abandoned their cities one after another. Medici had taken actual control of all five with barely any effort.

There was no dispute over this matter.

However, Hobart's other demands remained under negotiation.

Although Hobart still appeared highly forceful, he knew perfectly well that South Baylam had reached its limit just controlling those five colonies and the three states Loen had ceded from Eastern Baylam.

Before South Baylam entered the war, it had already completed its negotiations with Loen. After joining the conflict, the South Baylam Duchy had successively taken over the territories of three states in Eastern Baylam.

That had been Loen's condition for South Baylam's intervention. At the same time, the South Baylam Duchy had obtained exclusive operating rights in many sectors within the Loen Kingdom.

Precisely because it had gained too many benefits at once and needed large numbers of people to fill the gaps, South Baylam was recruiting soldiers while carrying out nationwide mobilization to establish control over its new territories.

Thus, Hobart did not start another war. Instead, he had Audrey and Benson negotiate with representatives from other countries through diplomatic means.