Chapter 684: Changes
Now that he had drawn on World Mom's power, Qin Xiaoxia saw no reason to hold back. He guided it straight toward the swamps in the Giant Monsters' forest and wiped those out as well.
Unlike the swamps in the Savage Beastmen's Western Grasslands, however, those in the Giant Monsters' forest produced nothing resembling an active conglomeration of corruption. They simply evaporated.
Only once this was done was the war against the apocalyptic crisis truly over for this world's native inhabitants.
More than a year had passed since the Prophecy War, and many ordinary people's lives were back on track.
Most of those who had fled had returned to their hometowns, spending the past year rebuilding together and tending their wounds.
The soldiers recruited en masse for the war had been demobilized in the months after it ended. Everyone was sick of war.
Even the royal families and great nobles would entertain no such ambitions until they had recovered their strength. Besides, rumor had it that the strongest warriors had remained in the Guerrilla Army's mysterious Star Sanctuary after eliminating the last threat to the world.
After a long closure, the Foam Tavern in Jiniz, a city in the western Kingdom of Bia, opened its doors again. Its owner was the same, though its staff had changed.
Many parts of the kingdom's Western Territory were short of people now. Anyone willing to settle there could even receive a house. Some might decide the conditions were better than back home and never return.
The tavern owner was a nostalgic man. He had never forgotten that compliment paid to his fine liquor back then, either. After longing for it all this time, he finally returned home and reopened his tavern.
Although the war was over, his hometown looked