As the weather gradually grew hotter, the situation on the Sains Continent gradually stabilized once more.
After the Candel Empire easily reclaimed the Southern Province with the Xinfei Merchant Guild's help, the dozen or so provinces that had declared independence soon returned to its fold one after another. As for the provinces that had descended into chaos, there was no need even to deploy the Xinfei Merchant Guild Guard Corps. Under the crushing assault of the Candel Empire Royal Family's army, they barely held out before peace was restored.
Before long, the Candel Empire's internal unrest had been completely suppressed. On the surface, apart from Tural Province becoming the Tural Autonomous Territory and adopting a somewhat ambiguous attitude toward the Candel Empire, the empire seemed little different from before the war. Its cooperation with the Xinfei Merchant Guild had merely grown a little closer.
By comparison, the Malo Empire, the other of the Two Great Empires, had changed even less.
Although it had suffered devastating losses against the allied forces of the Lampari Kingdom, the Drake Duchy, and the Xinfei Merchant Guild, then suffered heavy losses again after joining forces with the Candel Empire to fight the Rulson-Xinfei Allied Forces, none of this had damaged the Malo Empire's foundations.
The invasion of the Rulson-Xinfei Allied Forces had prompted several provinces in the Candel Empire to seize the opportunity to rebel. The Malo Empire, however, had remained remarkably stable throughout, without even a single dissenting voice.
After the war ended, the Malo Empire also recovered far faster than the Candel Empire. In less than half a year, it had almost returned to its former state.
Of course, the Malo Empire's cooperation with the Xinfei Merchant Guild had already been closer to begin with, and this close relationship deepened further after the