As it turned out, it did.
The scent of autumn grew stronger by the day. The heavy fruit hanging from the branches heralded the coming Harvest Festival. After entering the "Month of Ariel"(1), the crops throughout the Mez Region began to reach their peak harvest season. While continuing to mass troops along the western front, the military nobles also began arranging the autumn harvest with the tenant farmers in their territories. Thus, the Silver Queen's hopes of invading the Mez Region before the autumn harvest were utterly dashed—on both the eastern and western fronts.
But it had not been entirely without effect—
After the "Great Solar Eclipse" on the Holy Day, the unnatural glaciers and snow stretching from the Golden Needle Forest in East Metz to Silver Valley Bay gradually began to melt. The war that day had dealt a devastating blow to agriculture in the area, and both Fatan Port and Oweixin encountered an ensuing food crisis. The nobles had no choice but to order emergency food shipments from the Ludwig and Mehotofen regions to provide disaster relief. The repeated solar eclipses over the following days inevitably caused panic in the region. The astrologers told the people that the disorder of the laws had been caused by the influence of the Magic Tide, an event that occurred only once in a millennium. Against this backdrop, doomsday theories ran rampant, and the forces lurking in the shadows took advantage of the opportunity to flourish.
Because of this, the First Prince had no choice but to impose martial law in Fatan Port and Oweixin, which in fact slowed the progress of their counterattack on the eastern front.
It was worth mentioning, however, that after Medisa and Nemesis recaptured the passage from Valachi to the Golden Needle Forest, the military nobles stationed