Just ten days after the mobilization order was issued, Transia—having only just enjoyed a few days of peace—once again plunged into the tense and urgent preparations for war.
It had been less than a month since the Infinite Swarm had ended. In effect, the locals had been given barely a dozen precious days to rest between two rounds of preparations. In any other place, such frequent mobilizations would have caused no small amount of chaos. But then, what could you expect? Transians were different from everyone else.
Once the order to prepare for war had been delivered to the managers of every village through the Orbital Abacus office system, which now covered the entire region, the whole area began an orderly transition to a wartime footing. Some people who weren't used to peaceful lives even cheered, pulling out the weapons they had hidden at home and excitedly running off to the militia to ask to join the training.
Whether Transians truly loved war was debatable. But one thing was certain: people here could profit from it.
Especially over the past two years, since Governor Murphy had taken office. Every war involving Transians had brought them one benefit or another. That had been true of the Black Calamity and all the events that followed.
This damned, wild region still had a bounty system, after all.
For example, when the Infinite Swarm broke out, the beloved Lady Crimson Governor had issued a temporary bounty. Locals brave enough to venture out and hunt bugs had all received their full rewards. Even the smallest bounty was enough to cover the down payment on a house in Scarlet Keep.
Damn it!
Whoever had come up with this ridiculous system, anyway? Locals could buy houses in the big cities without restrictions, but they still had to