Only now did Lynn think to say, "Actually, religion can be useful sometimes—at least in this world."
Thinking it over, aside from being a bit full of charlatans, the Church was fairly republican. At least the Pope didn't inherit his position by bloodline; it was filled through a selection process or by designation.
Of course, he was talking about this world.
Once all that had been taken care of,
the Demon Race was furious.
They were horrified to discover that nothing could stop them from taking off anymore.
Not in terms of population, economy, technology, or military strength.
Even if they started a war,
the Demon Race of this world could no longer carry out a campaign of encirclement and annihilation like the one against the First Empire of Gaul.
Much less could they inflict the kind of devastating population losses on the Russians that the Third Reich had.
Past wars had claimed tens of millions of lives through plague and warfare.
But the Empire had a thick health bar, with a population of at least 400 million, even without an official count.
Lynn's Aningsbe forces could deal heavy damage with either hand.
The Kingdom of Ivrea and the Kingdom of Ukmark were human nations, too.
Even if the war had directly or indirectly affected tens of millions of people, that was just a drop in the bucket.
Even if they counted the war as having directly reduced the male population by over a million,
that was still a drop in the bucket.
The population was still being counted.
But even going by the old population figures, losing a few million men was no big deal.
What was more, the problems with low birth rates that the Elves couldn't solve, and that human nobles couldn't solve,
Lynn had solved!
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