News that the Empire and the Duchy of Tiris had signed an alliance agreement soon spread across the entire continent.
The rulers of every nation were certainly taken aback when they heard the news. Francis's repeated visits to the Empire to discuss an alliance had caused a stir throughout the Empire, and both the Kingdom of Kront and the Sasha Alliance had been following the negotiations closely.
After all, the Kingdom of Kront and the Sasha Alliance had also signed a military pact. If the Kingdom of Kront attacked Francis, the Sasha Alliance would declare war as well.
Francis was an established imperial power, while the Kingdom of Kront and the Sasha Alliance were both rising powers. A two-on-one fight should have posed no problem. But Francis was no fool either, and had long since signed a pact with the Olucci Empire, which lay east of the Kingdom of Kront.
That left the Kingdom of Kront trapped firmly between Francis and its ally, like the patty in a burger.
The Sasha Alliance lay south of the Kingdom of Kront. It did not border Francis, but it did border the Olucci Empire. If the Kingdom of Kront had its sights set on Francis, then the Sasha Alliance had its sights set on the Olucci Empire.
In terms of sheer size, the Olucci Empire was currently even larger than the Empire, but that meant jack shit. It lay in the bitterly cold north. Its territory might have been the largest in the world on a map, but most of it was barren tundra covered in permafrost. Never mind people-even animals were scarce.
Despite the country's immense size, its actual arable land was only about as extensive as the Duchy of Tiris.
Even so, the people of the Olucci Empire remained fierce. Its