At the Q&A session, Her Majesty the Empress personally confirmed that the royal family would be withdrawing from center stage in politics. Even the reporters who had already been tipped off felt intensely shaken!
The failure of a single war had driven Gefra's royal family toward "extinction"—something no one had expected.
Even those who had known some of the inside story in advance were deeply shocked at this moment. In truth, they had viewed the defeat far too simply.
This had not been an ordinary military defeat, nor the kind of defeat that ended with someone sitting at the negotiating table and saying, "We lost."
The Gefran navy had been wiped out, the main island had fallen completely, and the army had defected to the enemy. For the first time in thousands of years, someone had not only reached their homeland but occupied it.
Wasn't such an impressive record—one worthy of being written into the history of disgrace—enough to make the royal family yield?
Besides, what had this country been doing before the war broke out? Turning its own strength against itself.
The royal family and ministers, along with those noble factions, had poured almost all their energy into fighting for power and profit.
They had not cared at all about the outside world or what was happening, to the point that even long after the war had begun,
the people on the main island were still attacking one another over who would take charge, while the Army Minister had directly defected to the enemy because of it!
Power had long since been deified in this country.
Nothing could be done without power.
If these things could not be changed, then there could be no talk of changing Gefra. As the symbol of supreme power, the royal family withdrawing from