No one had expected the Holy Crusaders of the War God Church to move so quickly. The reason these seven figures at the pinnacle of the Dawn Kingdom schemed against one another was fundamentally because each of them had immense confidence in the Dawn Kingdom. They believed that even if they profited from it, nothing could possibly go wrong with the Dawn Kingdom. Naturally, they wanted to secure as many benefits as possible for their families.
But as the Southlands changed and the War God Church grew increasingly aggressive, they finally realized that if they did not resolve this swiftly, something catastrophic would definitely happen.
In this era, nobles rarely discussed war with anyone outside the nobility. Wars between nobles were often treated like games: sending war declarations, arranging battles in designated areas, and, if possible, determining victory through a "knights' game" involving several commanders. If the conflict was more intense, then they would fight a battle!
The victor could demand spoils from the loser. Even if the noble himself was not captured, he would only demand that the other party's territory pay some ransom... Wars against orcs and White Walkers, on the other hand, were exceptionally unusual.
In any case, in their eyes, war was merely a means for nobles to divide up interests. No matter what happened to commoners, at most they would enter the battlefield as knight attendants and ultimately become insignificant sacrifices.
Under such circumstances, when the crisis in the Southlands erupted, they instinctively believed that nothing could possibly go wrong. They were merely a bunch of peasants and slaves. Yet when more than a dozen Southlands families were slaughtered to the last and the Southlands Ducal Palace came under siege, they finally realized that this time truly was different from before!
Especially under the War