As the suzerain state of the Southern Pact Alliance, the Mitra Empire was naturally unsettled. Its subordinate allies had accepted the miracle—so should it take some measures of its own?
If it did nothing, it would surely suffer enormous losses once the other side came attacking.
But if it acted, what if it directly provoked them?
Naturally, those were matters for the upper echelons to worry about. Within the Alvarez Principality, people were still immersed in the atmosphere of the New Year. The arrival of the miracle had made them even more cheerful. No one would refuse to live in a powerful nation, especially one that had just received the blessing of a god.
Li had also chosen this time for the Giant God Soldier Workshop's reopening. With so many resources available here, the first-floor hall had been made extravagantly ostentatious...
Gold was the eternal theme. The walls, from top to bottom, were covered in vast amounts of genuine gold—laid in sheets a full finger thick, not mere gold leaf.
The enormous chandelier was primarily made of crystal, with large amounts of mithril embedded within it. The whole thing had also been enchanted. Whenever it was time to light it, the crystal chandelier would emit an incomparably soft magical radiance.
As for the armor and weapons casually displayed throughout the hall, they had all been made according to the tastes of those nobles—first and foremost, they had to be gorgeous. Practicality did not matter.
No noble who genuinely wished to buy things here would actually take them out to challenge magical beasts.
Even the display stands holding the equipment were the sort of things that looked obviously expensive at a glance.
Simply put, the first floor existed to attract clueless minor nobles and nouveau riche.
Of course, any noble capable