Grain Law Incident!

Adolf said goodbye to Ross. I never thought that after all these years, he would still be so naive.

Trying to persuade the empire to end the war is a huge joke.

In the following years, the empire intensified its actions, and with the rapid advancement of technology, the pace of warfare accelerated.

The nation of 005 was quickly and severely damaged. On the night that the Empire and the Staff Department were preparing to hold a victory celebration banquet, an unexpected incident occurred.

The Frost King, led by the eastern kingdoms, formed an anti-empire alliance.

The ten eastern nations united to form the Allied Powers, effectively sealing the empire's fate.

However, a dramatic turn of events occurred.

After ten nations declared war on the Empire, the first battle broke out within 005's own nation, and the allied forces of the ten nations were severely damaged.

They adopted the Staff Department model, just like the Empire did, and as a result, the Empire launched espionage activities, stealing information and conducting tactical strikes against enemy Staff Department.

The Staff Department plan proposed by the Empire was overturned by the Empire itself.

In the same year, the Empire also launched a hot war, with missiles being deployed to the battlefield. The war lasted for eight years, and nearly a million artillery shells were used on the battlefield.

World War has broken out.

Imperial year 275.

The war lasted for nearly 30 years, and as various inhumane methods were employed, the number of casualties began to rise sharply.

In just thirty years, a total of 2.85 million people died on the Outer Sea Continent. The children of the rare people were thrown into the battlefield as soon as they were born. Under the bombing of firearms, the battlefield became a living hell.

And the number of casualties continues to rise.

From biological and chemical attacks with poison gas to artillery bombardment and joint airship bombardment, the Empire deployed no fewer than 180 artifacts.

Until the year 280 of the Imperial Calendar.

An unexpected event occurred; the giant snake made its move.

009 has a magical artifact, and so does he.

Afterwards, the True Ancestor joined the war and began to fight with 009 for air superiority.

The Frost King's main ground force began to exert its strength. Apart from the soldiers who were blown to pieces, all the corpses whose limbs were still relatively intact got up and joined the battle.

In the end, the eastern region incorporated the armies of fifteen different countries.

At the crucial moment when the empire was about to unify the Outer Sea Continent, it was kicked off its pedestal.

A coalition of fifteen nations is about to annihilate the empire in one fell swoop!

But it was precisely at this moment that 009 gritted his teeth and began to go all out. He first killed the Rat King, collected the three crowns, and then began to negotiate with various countries!

With three crowns in hand, he will be able to unleash natural disasters. Anyone who dares to take another step forward will be dragged down with the power of these disasters!

But the Frost King wasn't having any of it and ordered 009 to unleash a natural disaster to kill him.

009 would never release the natural disaster, because only by keeping the natural disaster in his hands could he make all the sequences wary.

Once he uses it, other countries will no longer be afraid of him, and they will swarm in to devour 009 and others.

In the year 281 of the Imperial Calendar, the war ended.

As a result of the war, the empire ceded 64% of its territory and was forced to sign a humiliating treaty by the defeated empire.

The empire cannot form an army, but can only have a self-defense force. The people of the empire cannot cross the border. If the empire initiates a war, it will once again be attacked by a coalition of countries.

At the same time, the most astonishing thing is the reparations the empire paid to the victorious nations. The amount of reparations was astronomical, and the empire would not be able to pay it off even in a hundred years.

Afterwards, they also divided up the empire's scientific research achievements and joined forces to restrict the empire's technological development.

From this point onward, the empire's military strength, economic system, land area, and technological development all plummeted.

The empire entered its darkest hour; apart from its three crowns, it had no power to counterbalance the surrounding nations.

Some members of the Staff Department were labeled as war criminals, and unrest ensued within the Empire.

Especially afterward, the North Sea continent experienced a decade-long drought, pushing food scarcity to its peak.

Not just the empire, but the entire world is facing a food crisis.

With too many people and too little food, a good solution has not been found since the war ended.

The food problem first broke out in an alliance of fifteen countries in the east.

After those fifteen nations defeated the empire, they formed an alliance, creating a long-lasting confederation.

However, not long after, a grain crisis broke out in the Allied countries, and the price of food rose year by year, to the point that ordinary people could not afford it.

Shortly thereafter, the Grain Law Incident broke out within the United Nations.

The demands of ordinary people within the United Nations to abolish the grain tax were naturally impossible and unacceptable to the landowning class.

Because the proposal was not adopted, peasant revolutions broke out within the Allied Powers over the next two years.

With the advancement of the labor movement, the royal status within the Union began to waver.

And all of this was arranged by one person.

That person was Alos the Liar Eater.

He proposed a plan that could directly leapfrog the League era.

The monarchy was abolished, and Presidential Republic System was established.

Alos no longer had much territory, and its population was small, making its position among the allied nations precarious. So, under the pretext of strengthening its national power, it launched a revolutionary movement.

He made his own people the role models for this movement, taking the lead by killing the king he had chosen and abolishing the feudal idea of the divine right of kings.

But what good would this do for him as a ruler?

Alos only smiled and didn't say anything. After the movement was launched, people in other countries were influenced by him and drawn into the revolution.

As the number of people participating in the movement grew, Alos began to lie.

With a single sentence, he transformed all those who did not belong to him into his citizens.

By the time other countries realized this, it was too late.

Alos achieved a remarkable feat, essentially turning itself into a superpower with minimal investment.

"Gentlemen, don't look at us like that. Look at our neighbors. In this era of feudal monarchs, we have transformed ourselves into communists. This is more than a century ahead of us!"

"Haven't we already won?"

Yes, Alos is completely outmatched.

He completed the leap from monarchy to republic in the year 297 of the world calendar.

A republic composed of fifteen countries was established.

This trend swept across the entire Outer Sea Continent, abolishing the monarchy and putting the people in charge. This was a devastating blow to the people of other countries.

"When my people raise their hammer and sickle, I know I have won the game."

"I am not a god, but the leader of this country."

Alos became the leader of fifteen nations, a fact that the Frost King, the True Ancestor, and Orochi all remained silent about.

The people have no absolute loyalty, and this was the opportunity for Alos to turn the tide that he had been determined to seize from the very beginning.

Since he has no people, he will persuade people from other countries to serve him; since he has no land, he will get people from other countries to give him land voluntarily!

Gods, of course, cannot be persuaded by Alos, but humans can.

"Now, we are comrades."