Just as anticipated, the currency crises rocking the Shadow Empire and the Blood Fiend Empire grew increasingly severe after the Fallen Angel Empire's grand military parade, while the situation within the Fallen Angel Empire became ever more stable.
Throughout the Fallen Angel Empire, everyone shared one powerful conviction—the words Shea had spoken: "We fear no war!"
This domineering declaration had been uttered from the lips of a Fallen Angel Empire monarch for the first time in nearly four hundred years since Emperor White Night's fall, brimming with such confidence. This was not blind arrogance; the military might displayed by the Fallen Angel Empire during the parade was enough to look down upon the entire Demon Realm. There was no longer any need to conceal the secrets of those powerful troop types.
In the days following the parade, the Fallen Angel Empire's people possessed an unprecedented degree of unity and confidence. By comparison, the other two great empires were gripped by unease, terrified of being dragged into a war they could not win.
News came that the Shadow Empire and Blood Fiend Empire had secretly formed an alliance against the Fallen Angel Empire. Whether it was true or not, the Fallen Angel Empire was now indisputably the strongest nation in the Demon Realm, both militarily and economically. Who could have imagined that just two years ago, the Fallen Angel Empire had been the weakest of the three nations, forced to rely on the Shadow Empire's strength to fend off Blood Fiend aggression?
It was not that the Blood Fiend Empire or Shadow Empire had weakened, but that the Fallen Angel Empire had become stronger—stronger to an unbelievable extent. In just two short years, it had undergone a qualitative transformation.
The Shadow Empire and Blood Fiend Empire had worked together to temporarily