This was a whole new world trajectory, but one that made sense—and it was utterly bleak.
It was a story about how the world would develop if the situation remained unchanged.
The Northern Orcs would invade the lands that had once belonged to the Demi-human Kingdom. The demi-humans living there certainly wouldn't be able to resist them.
The Kingdom of Ivrea and the Kingdom of Ukmark had both been infiltrated like sieves, especially with the kind of mess the Princess of Ivrea had caused.
The Eastern Nations also wanted the Empire to decline, since that would benefit them.
Even if the southern Goblins hadn't been inexplicably united, there were still a great many of them.
The Demon Race in the west also occupied a vast swath of the Northern Continent. Back then, they hadn't been driven into the sea at all.
Emperor Charles was still doing nothing.
The Empire's own factions were still at odds.
Its three heirs refused to yield, while the old and New nobles fought one another.
There were even the newest of the new nobles: the nobles who were merchants.
The plague that had threatened the Empire for so many years had been stopped by Lynn. That wasn't much of an issue—if he'd kept doing nothing, it wouldn't have been stopped.
Then the plague would have erupted in the Imperial capital, though the Saintess could have treated it.
After that, there would have been all the infighting between factions.
Louis had suddenly realized that the Empire also had tensions between slaves and their masters, as well as tax disputes.
Those tax disputes weren't between different regions.
They were between the wealthy regions and the dirt-poor ones.
Back then, taxes had been cut in the poor regions, but the peasants hadn't risen up. Lynn had been responsible