Natural Frontline!

There was a reason the Old Man said that. Stick Country's actions had truly been idiotic.

If the real investigation report had not been placed before the Old Man, he would never have believed that Stick Country's frontline had collapsed like this.

Those fucking pigs treated the lords below them like dirt. Bullying—serious bullying within the military—had directly driven some lower- and middle-ranking lords into becoming sick of life.

Was that something a human being could fucking do?

This was a defensive frontline, not children playing house.

Because of that, those bullied soldiers had directly defected and viciously stabbed the vital nodes within the frontline.

The result was the frontline's collapse. Even if they wanted to salvage it afterward, the enemy would not give them the chance. The frontline Stick Country faced was the Half-Orc frontline.

Those bastards would not give Stick Country any opportunities.

"Those pigs can't even copy the answers? Did they have to play it like this?" The Old Man felt utterly exhausted. What he feared most was something going wrong on Stick Country's side and triggering a chain reaction.

It seemed there was no way to avoid it now.

That was also why Imperial Capital University had first-year students begin gaining experience so early, adapting to the frontline's brutality. Something like this could very well happen in the Main World.

When that time came, the war erupting in the Main World would be even more brutal than the frontline.

At least the frontline still had a way out, but the Main World had no retreat whatsoever.

As for why The Empire would not take in Stick Country's upper ranks, was there any need to?

The Empire also understood there was no need to accept Stick Country's upper ranks. First, they would bring no benefits. Second, they